With the rapid soaring incidence of breast cancer per year worldwide countless women died from breast cancer, experts in the research is also deeper. In recent years, statistics show that the global incidence of breast cancer young Although there is no significant growth, but the absolute number has increased. According to the monitoring, epidemiology and end results (SEER) database, the statistics of the United States “40-year-old woman suffering from breast cancer, the number of cases to 6460 cases from 1992-1995 to grow to 8270 cases in 2000-2004, in which invasive carcinoma of the the number of cases increased from 5751 cases to 7255 cases.
The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2005 “40-year-old female ratio of new breast cancer incidence rate of all age groups accounted for 4.1% (9510 cases of invasive cancer, accounting for 4.5%; 1600 cases of carcinoma in situ, accounting for 2.7%; 1110 cases of death , accounting for 2.7%). And the “40-year-old 5-year survival rate of breast cancer patients over the age of onset less than 40 persons (82% vs. 89%). According to the report, “35-year-old young 5-year survival rate of patients with breast cancer even lower, only 74.3%.
In the United States and other Western countries, despite the “40-year-old female, the incidence of breast cancer than white black high, but the contrary, In” 40-year-old female, the incidence of blacks was significantly higher than whites (16.8 cases / 10 million pairs of 15.1 cases / 10 million). These two groups there are significant cross-(cross-over) phenomenon, while young black women with breast cancer prognosis is also worse than the white women may be related to the black in the BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutation rates are relatively high and many times a short period after childbirth increase the risk of breast cancer.
From this we can see that, although the post-menopausal women are at high risk of breast cancer, but the young girls are also affected by breast cancer, love. Experts advise: as long to develop good habits and routines of life, breast cancer will be away from.