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The aim of the study is study of digital and palmar dermatoglyphic pattern of both hands of female patients with carcinoma breast. Purpose of study was explained along with proper information about the procedure to the members of both the groups. Informed consent was taken from both groups. Dermatoglyphic pattern of palms and fingers was taken by Ink method as described by Cummins and Midlo. Result: It shows that significantly higher number of breast cancer patients i.e. 84.48% show presence of whorls in their two or more fingers as compared to controls where it was 69.80% (p value < .05), the table no. 3 also depicts that presence of two or more whorls is significantly associated positively with carcinoma breast (OR= 2.15). Conclusion: The present study was done to find any significant dermatoglyphic difference between breast carcinoma patients and healthy controls and it has been found that there is a possible positive correlation between digital ridge patterns, ridge counts and breast cancer. Hence dermatoglyphics could be helpful in screening out risk group which can be subjected to timely mammography and detecting possibility of breast cancer, so as to enable us to take preventive prophylactic measures like prophylactic surgery or chemoprevention.

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