A new study has revealed that Breast cancer is now the world’s most common carcinogenic disease.
According to the study, the disease can likely cause a million deaths a year by 2040.
Around 7.8 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the last five years until 2020 and about 685,000 women died from the disease the same year.
Further, in 2020, women around the world on average had a 1 in 12 risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer before turning 75 years old, and this incidence is rising
According to the researchers, it is estimated that cases of breast cancer cases will increase from 2.3 million in 2020 to more than 3 million by 2040
Knowledge gaps, such as unknown numbers of women with metastatic breast cancer in which the cancer spreads to other parts, continue to prevent effective action.
While these survival rates exceed 90 per cent in HICs, the rates are 66 per cent in India and 40 per cent in South Africa
Up to one-quarter of breast cancer in HICs could be prevented by modifying risk factors for breast cancer.