Monday 22 October 2012

Breast cancer: incidence, mortality and survival

Breast cancer: incidence, mortality and survival. Office for national statistics, England, September 2012.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cancer-unit/breast-cancer-in-england/2010/sum-1.html

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in England. In 2010, 41,259 new cases were diagnosed, an increase of 1.8 per cent (731 cases) compared to 2009. There were 126 new cases per 100,000 women in 2010, compared with 125 new cases per 100,000 women in 2009. These incidence rates have increased by 90 per cent between 1971 and 2010.