Lancet Reports Breast Cancer Deaths Likely To Increase By 50% By 2024; Warning Signs and Symptoms To Track [Video]

Warning Signs Of Breast Cancer: Breast cancer cases will increase from 2.3 million in 2020 to more than 3 million by 2040 worldwide. Low- and middle-income countries are being disproportionately affected, says a new Lancet Commission. Breast cancer is now the world’s most common cancer; at the end of 2020, 7.8 million women were alive having been diagnosed in the previous five years. In the same year, 685,000 women died from the disease. Despite significant improvements in research, treatment, and survival, gross inequities persist, and many patients are being systematically left behind, reports the Lancet study.

In a conversation with Jagran English, Dr Rajashekar C Jaka, Consultant – Surgical Oncology & Robotic Surgery, Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Jayanagar and Malleshwaram explained about early warning signs and symptoms of breast cancer that one should know.

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in India and worldwide. In India, breast carcinoma affects about 25.8 per 100000 women each year …