 Facts and Figures in USA & UK
- 2000 : 1,050,346 cases reported with 372,969 deaths from breast cancer world-wide.
- An average of 95 per 100,000 in more developed countries.20 per 100,000 in less developed countries
- Number of new cancers is steadily increasing.
- More frightening in countries like the USA where about 184,000 new cases of breast cancer are detected annually.
- The National Cancer Institute estimates that by age 50, one out of every 50 women will develop breast cancer.
- By age 80, it will rise to one in 10.
- If this risk is calculated over their lifetime, one in 8 women will suffer from breast cancer.
- One in 28 will die of the disease.
- One in 3000 women develop breast cancer during pregnancy and pregnant women tend to develop them usually in their 30s.
- Only 2% of breast cancers are diagnosed in pregnant women.
- Every 3 minutes, one woman is diagnosed with breast cancer (USA)
- Every 11 minutes, one woman dies from breast cancer (USA)
- Every year, 30,000 women and 200 men are diagnosed with breast cancer (UK)
- In Asia, the rate of increase has been the greatest with steep increases in the incidence as well as death rate (mortality).
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