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.
Significance
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
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.
Effects
Breast cancer causes 14 percent of cancer deaths in women, with more than 410,000 deaths annually worldwide.
Potential
Nearly 4.5 million women are alive today who have received breast cancer diagnoses in the last five years.
Geography
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
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
The two greatest risk factors, worldwide, for developing breast cancer are being a woman and getting older.
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