Open AccessAvenues for the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer in the Second Millennium
Author(s) -
Salim M. Adib
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the dow university of health sciences/journal of the dow university of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-2180
pISSN - 1995-2198
DOI - 10.36570/jduhs.2021.3.1569
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , breast cancer , demography , population ageing , cancer , population , lung cancer , pathology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Breast cancer (BC) has recently surpassed lung canceras the most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide,with an estimated 19.3 million new cases and almost 10 1 million deaths occurring in 2020. A steady ascension in BC incidence has been a remarkable feature in cancer epidemiology for almost a century, and has been reported in richer as well as poorer communities all over the world. This trend is no doubt associated with the ageing of the global population: “Each one-year increase of population ageing (is) associated with a nearly ½ year increase of age at BC diagnosis.