Breast cancer In Malaysia-Facts and Figures - Breast cancer was the commonest overall cancer as well as the commonest cancer in women amongst all races from the age of 20 years in Malaysia for 2002 and 2003.
- Breast cancer is most common in the Chinese, followed by the Indians and then, Malays.
- Breast cancer formed 31% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in women in 2003. (30.4% in 2002)
- The Age Standardized Rate (ASR) of female breast cancer is 52.8 per 100,000 population in 2002 and 46.2 per 100 000 population in 2003.
- Amongst the Chinese, it is higher at 70.1 per 100,000 population, for the Indians, the ASR is 61.7 per 100,000 and it is lowest in the Malays at 41.9 per 100,000 population
- In 2003, it was 33.9 in Malays, 59.7 in Chinese and 55.8 in Indian women
- A woman in Malaysia has a 1 in 19 chance of getting breast cancer in her lifetime
- The cumulative life time risk of developing breast cancer for Chinese women, Indian women and Malay women were 1 in 14, 1 in 15 and 1 in 24 respectively.
- Slightly more than half of the women diagnosed with cancer were less than 50 years old.
- In comparison, the next (2nd) commonest cancer in Malaysian women in 2002 & 2003 was cancer of the cervix, which only formed 12% and 12.9% respectively of total female cancers.
- The statistics for Malaysia was sourced from the National Cancer Registry Reports 2002 and 2003.
- The International Agency for Research in Cancers (Globocan 2000) reported that in 2000, there were 3825 cases reported and 1707 deaths from breast cancer in Malaysia. Globocan 2000 estimated the crude rate of breast cancer in Malaysia of 34.9 per 100,000 population with Age Standardized rate of 41.9 per 100,000.
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