About Breast Cancer
What are the symptoms of breast cancer? How to look out for them? What are the tests, and how is it treated - surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy etc. All about breast cancer that you ever wished to know.
Are these facts for real?
Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women in India. 27.7% of all new cancers detected in women in India in the year 2018, were breast cancers.
One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, in India, every 4 minutes
One woman dies of Breast cancer, in India, every 13 minutes
An estimated 1,62,468 women were newly detected with breast cancer, in India, for the year 2018. 87,090 women died of breast cancer in India, for the year 2018, the second highest in the world for that year.
India has a predominant young population and hence the numbers of women being diagnosed with breast cancer, in that age group is only going to increase.
Should I be afraid then?
No, not at all!
We don't have to be afraid, we need to be alert
we need to be 'aware'.
Western countries like the US began their breast cancer
awareness programmes way back in the 1980s,
and as a result of those efforts, finally the death rate due to
breast cancer started showing decline, for the first time, in early 2000s.
Correct information is... half the war won already.
It is our aim to guide you on everything
related to breast cancer in India - from the latest statistics
on breast cancer in India (2020), to early detection of breast cancer,
from entire treatment journey of breast cancer to motivating survivor stories,
from excellent videos to explain breast cancer to the only active online support group
for breast cancer patients and care givers in India - We have it all.
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