Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the UK, with 44,000 cases diagnosed annually Despite the fact that cardiovascular disease has a higher incidence and mortality, breast cancer generates considerable anxiety among patients and health professionals, regularly attracting sensationalist adverse publicity.

Breast Cancer Statistics

  • Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2006, an estimated 212,920 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed, along with 61,980 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. 40,970 women died in 2006 from this disease.
  • Breast cancer is the leading cancer among white and African American women. African American women are more likely to die from this disease.
  • Breast cancer incidence in women has increased from one in 20 in 1960 to one in eight today.

Although the incidence of breast cancer has been increasing, deaths have been falling - Figure 1

incidence of breast cancer

Figure 1 Incidence and mortality from breast cancer 1975 to 2005 in Great Britain.

(http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/mortality/timetrends/)


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