How common is breast cancer in women?

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1. Jennifer
   

    "Breast cancer contains 22.9% of obtrusive cancer in women, which are approximately one million women worldwide.
   
   In 2008, it has been calculated that due to breast cancer 458,503 deaths occurred all across the world i.e. 13.7% of cancer deaths in women and 6.0% of all cancer deaths for men and women together.
   
   The occurrence of breast cancer highly fluctuates all across the world; it is minimum in under-developed nations and maximum in the high-developed nations. Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women and affects approximately one million women worldwide.
   
   It is reported that 30 per cent of all female develop Breast cancer in the UK and nearly 1 in 9 women in the UK get breast cancer during their life. Men can also develop breast cancer, accounting for 1% of cases diagnosed annually in the UK; around 250 men are diagnosed breast cancer every year in the UK.
   
   The number of breast cancer cases worldwide has gradually multiplied since the 1970s, the appearance inadequately associated to the modern lifestyles.
   
   Breast cancer has a close concern with age that 5% of all breast cancers identified in women under 40."

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