Breast cancer

Breast cancer is the leading cause of women mortality and cancer-related morbidity across the world. Pakistani women are no exception. Like carcinoma lung, it has shown an exponential rise in incidence after the Second World War. International as well as local figure indicate this disease alone to be accountable for about a third of all the cancers in females and one out of every ten new cancer cases turns out to be carcinoma breast. Approximately one in every 9 Pakistani women is likely to suffer from breast cancer which is one of the highest incidence rates in Asia. Geographic incidence of the disease does vary with India, China, Japan and Philippines being the traditional low-risk countries

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