Statistics on Breast Cancer.

Breast cancer statistics given below are global statistics  which give the breast cancer incidence, breast cancer survival and breast cancer mortality rate. Breast cancer prevalence has increased to the extent of it being now declared as a global epidemic.

Breast Cancer Rates|Breast Cancer Survival.

Consider these breast cancer facts given below:

• Nearly one out four cases diagnosed with cancer are breast cancer patients.
• In other words, breast cancer accounts for 23% of all cancer cases.
• Half of these are from developed countries.
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women.
• The reason breast cancer is more common in the developed world is probably due to breast cancer awareness and early diagnosis. This does not happen in the undeveloped countries where many cases of breast cancer go unnoticed and do not translate into statistics.
• More than one million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the world.
• Every half a minute a new case of breast cancer is diagnosed in the world.
• Incidence of breast cancer is high in developed countries and low in less developed countries.
• The significance of age in breast cancer is seen from the fact that only 5% of breast cancer cases are below the age of 40 years.
• A woman has a 13% lifetime risk of developing invasive breast cancer.

Picture showing breast cancer statistics worldwide.

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Breast Cancer Survival.

• In the western countries, about 90% of women diagnosed with breast cancer are alive after 5 years since first diagnosed.
• About 4.5 million women breast cancer survivors are alive today who were diagnosed in the last five years.
• All these breast cancer rates are showing more increasing trends in the developing countries than in the developed countries.

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate.

Worldwide.

• Breast cancer is the principal cause of death in women. It accounts for 14% of cancer deaths in women, which translates into 4,10,000 female deaths every year worldwide.
• Breast cancer ranks fifth as the cause of death worldwide.
• Globally, breast cancer kills one woman every 75 seconds.
• In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide.

Breast Cancer Statistics by Country.

Below are figures showing the incidence of breast cancer country wise. The figures indicated are per 100,000. Iceland tops this list of 20 top countries in the world.

 

Iceland	39.4
Denmark	30.4
Netherlands	28.7
Belgium	28.7
New Zealand	28
Ireland	27.5
Hungary	26.6
England	26
Germany	23.5
Canada	22.6
Czech Republic	22.2
Italy	22
France	21.7
Australia	21.6
Austria	21.5
Norway	21.3
United States	21.2
Luxembourg	21
Spain	19.5
Portugal	19.3

Source: World health organization.

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