Like other cancers, breast cancer is a complex disease with no simple solution.
According to statistics from World Cancer Research Fund breast cancers is the most common cancer alongside lung cancer. That was in 2018.
A recent report has toppled those figures to reveal that breast cancer is now the most prevalent cancer in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer became the most common cancer globally as of 2021 accounting for 12 per cent of all new annual cancer cases worldwide.
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