Breast cancer, which is more than 100 times more common in women than in men, had caused 458,503 deaths worldwide in 2008, which is roughly equivalent to 13.7 per cent of cancer deaths in women and six per cent of all cancer-related deaths for both genders together, according to a report prepared by World Health Organisation (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (GLOBOCAN) project.
Basically, by 2008, breast cancer had accounted for 22.9 per cent of all cancers
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