Articles of category "BC Epidemiology"

If you've never known a woman with breast cancer, you're either lucky or completely antisocial. Statistics for breast cancer epidemiology show that about one in eight women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time in her life. Each year, over 240,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. This article takes a look at the story behind some of these numbers. Who is at risk for breast cancer? Who is more likely to survive? And should we really be concerned about our risk factors?

Cancer is more than a disease that takes millions of lives every year; it is a face of a loved one, the baldness of a sufferer, depression. Cancer affects more lives than any other single disease. Breast cancer epidemiology is making waves with efforts to deter certain types of advertising, the money it raises for awareness and setting jurisprudence in the courtrooms of America.