As soon as it is Breast Cancer Awareness month I thought I would do this for today's challenge. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. Around 50,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, around 300 of them men.
Approximately 81 per cent of breast cancers occur in women who are over the age of 50. Nearly half of all cases are diagnosed in people in the 50-69 age group.
Breast cancer is not one single disease. There are several types of breast cancer. It can be diagnosed at different stages of development and can grow at different rates. This means that people can be given different treatments, depending on what will work best for them.
Having breast cancer doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is going to die. Better treatments mean that more and more people are now living long and full lives after breast cancer. It’s thought that around 550,000 people are alive in the UK who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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