October 20-the National day of fight with breast cancer

October 20-the National day of fight with breast cancer

National day against cancer breast cancer set in 2005 by the President with the goal of revitalizing the activities of the prevention and spread of breast cancer draw public attention to this problem.

Malignant tumors (cancer) remain one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. Every year more than 12 million people in the world diagnosed cancer, 7.6 million. die from this disease.

In particular, only on the territory of Kiev in 2009 registered 9167 cases first diagnosed malignant tumors: 4127 cases in males and 5,040-women.

Breast cancer ranks second the position in the structure of oncological morbidity. Every year in the world is about a million new cases of breast cancer. In General, the incidence of breast cancer for the last two ten years increased by 30%. But mortality does not increase, the reason why the improvement of diagnosis and methods of treatment.

The highest incidence is in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, France. Every 25 minutes in the countries The EU diagnosed one case of cancer of the breast, every 6.5 minutes it dies one woman. Ukraine is not part of the incidence, but here the problem is very serious.