In 2020, women around the world on average had a 1 in 12 risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer before turning 75 years old.
Breast cancer. (iStock)
Breast cancer is now the world’s most common carcinogenic disease, likely to cause a million deaths a year by 2040, according to a new Lancet Commission on breast cancer. They estimated that cases of breast cancer cases will increase from 2.3 million in 2020 to more than 3 million by 2040, with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) being “disproportionately affected”.