Global Breast Cancer Statistics
While advances in recent years have helped in the battle against breast cancer, it is still a global epidemic. Education is the first step in the fight against breast cancer, and you can begin by learning some global breast cancer statistics.
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Significance
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world and the leading cause of cancer-related death for women. Globally, breast cancer kills one woman every 75 seconds. Breast cancer affects men as well as women.
Identification
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Every 29 seconds a new case of breast cancer is diagnosed somewhere in the world, and more than 1 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
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Effects
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Breast cancer causes 14 percent of cancer deaths in women, with more than 410,000 deaths annually worldwide.
Potential
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Nearly 4.5 million women are alive today who have received breast cancer diagnoses in the last five years.
Geography
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Both the number of people getting breast cancer and the number of people killed by breast cancer are rising faster in the developing world than in developed nations.
Symptoms
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Symptoms of breast cancer include any new lumps in or on the breast and around the underarm area; puckering skin or nipple area; any change in the size and/or shape of the breast or nipple; sores on breast skin or nipple; and breast pain or tenderness that is not caused by your menstrual cycle.
Risk Factors
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The two greatest risk factors, worldwide, for developing breast cancer are being a woman and getting older.
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