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Breast Cancer Demographics

Breast cancer is the most common of all malignant diseases in women. According to research, 145,000 new cases in the USA and more than 40,000 cases in the UK are reported annually. This trend has increased in the past 50 years and figures of breast cancer are higher in developed nations than those in developing or under-developed countries. It is estimated that each year, 1 million new cases are diagnosed globally, and one woman in every nine will develop some form of breast cancer in her lifetime.

The primary breast cancer demographic factors include age, race and socioeconomic status. Age, according to Edward Sauter and Mary B. Daly in the book “Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection,” is the highest risk factor for breast cancer. The risk of breast cancer is proportionate to age and it is the greatest in postmenopausal women.

Breast cancer rates vary between different ethnicities and race. Breast cancer is prevalent in white black and Hispanic women, in decreasing order of incidence. Breast cancer is lowest in Asian women. These differences may be due to various inherited traits, the differences in the nature of the tumors and other cultural factors, such as age at first birth.

Breast cancer is directly linked with affluence and its related lifestyle factors (smoking, alcohol intake, high fat diets, exposure to ionizing radiation and exposure to chemicals such as dioxins, mammary carcinogens, solvents and pesticides.

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