Age-standardized deaths from breast cancer per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004. Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women. (The most common form of cancer is non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancer; non-invasive cancers are generally easily cured, cause very few deaths, and are routinely excluded from cancer statistics.) Breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women and 16% of all female cancers. In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide (13.7% of cancer deaths in women and 6.0% of all cancer deaths for men and women together). Lung cancer, the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women, caused 12.8% of cancer deaths in women (18.2% of all cancer deaths for men and women together). The number of cases worldwide has significantly increased since the 1970s, a phenomenon partly attributed to the modern lifestyles.
Epidemiology of breast cancer
Breast cancer classification
Breast cancer awareness
Epidemiology of cancer
Breast cancer screening
Prostate cancer screening
Cervical cancer staging
Epidemiology of obesity