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Breast cancer is the most common cancer afflicting females in many countries including middle eastern and asian countries. Prognosis of breast carcinoma especially in developing countries including India and Iraq is still poorly understood which is mainly attributable to the late stage of patient presentation rather than the behaviour of the disease. The main aim of this study was to assess the clinic-pathological presentation and demographic characteristics of Indian and Iraqi breast cancer patients. Ninety-one Iraqi patients who were diagnosed as having breast cancer, and whose age ranged from 30-72 years were included in the study and further compared with 84 Indian patients for their clinic-pathological parameters. The recorded demographic and clinic-pathological data were analysed statistically in comparison to the Indian group. The median ages of Iraqi and Indian breast cancer patients in our study were 49.2 and 47.2 respectively. Family history of breast cancer was observed in 24% of Iraqi patients under study. More than 90% of patients were diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma (in both groups studied). The most prevalent tumor size was T2 according to TNM staging in both groups of patients. Axillary nodal involvement was reported in more than three quarters of the studied population in both groups (80% and 84.6% for the Iraqi and Indian patients respectively). Within the Iraqi group stage II was the commonest detected stage at presentation versus stage III within the Indian group. The commonest encountered histological grade was Grade II (58% and 66.6% in the Iraqi and Indian group respectively). The earlier stage at presentation within the Iraqi and Indian group could point out to the early inputs of initiating the National Program for Early Detection of Breast Cancer in both the countries.