GLOBOCAN Cancer Fact Sheets: Breast Cancer

GLOBOCAN 2008

CANCER FACT SHEET

	Incidence
	Mortality

Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide in 2008
Summary

Estimated numbers (thousands)	Cases	Deaths
World	1384	458
More developed regions	692	189
Less developed regions	691	269
WHO Africa region (AFRO)	68	37
WHO Americas region (PAHO)	320	82
WHO East Mediterranean region (EMRO)	61	31
WHO Europe region (EURO)	450	139
WHO South-East Asia region (SEARO)	203	93
WHO Western Pacific region (WPRO)	279	73
IARC membership (22 countries)	740	214
United States of America	182	40
China	169	44
India	115	53
European Union (EU-27)	332	89


Estimated age-standardised rates (World) per 100,000

At a glance

Breast cancer is by far the most frequent cancer among women with an estimated 1.38 million new cancer cases diagnosed in 2008 (23% of all cancers), and ranks second overall (10.9% of all cancers). It is now the most common cancer both in developed and developing regions with around 690 000 new cases estimated in each region (population ratio 1:4).
Incidence rates vary from 19.3 per 100,000 women in Eastern Africa to 89.7 per 100,000 women in Western Europe, and are high (greater than 80 per 100,000) in developed regions of the world (except Japan) and low (less than 40 per 100,000) in most of the developing regions.
The range of mortality rates is much less (approximately 6-19 per 100,000) because of the more favorable survival of breast cancer in (high-incidence) developed regions. As a result, breast cancer ranks as the fifth cause of death from cancer overall (458 000 deaths), but it is still the most frequent cause of cancer death in women in both developing (269 000 deaths, 12.7% of total) and developed regions, where the estimated 189 000 deaths is almost equal to the estimated number of deaths from lung cancer (188 000 deaths).

GLOBOCAN 2008 (IARC) , Section of Cancer Information (19/5/2013)

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Estimated Breast Cancer Incidence Worldwide in 2008

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18.9

27.2

40.0

64.0

110
Age-standardised incidence rates per 100,000

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GLOBOCAN 2008, International Agency for Research on Cancer

Trends in incidence of breast cancer in selected countries: age-standardised rate (W) per 100,000

NORDCAN (www.ancr.nu)	France: INVS Ireland: www.ncri.ie The Netherlands: www.ikcnet.nl England: www.statistics.gov.uk Scotland: www.isdscotland.org Wales: www.wales.nhs.uk	Australia: www.aihw.gov.au Canada: www.statcan.gc.ca India: Chennai cancer registry Japan: Miyagi, Osaka and Yamagata cancer registries Republic of Korea: www.ncc.re.kr USA: SEER program: seer.cancer.gov

GLOBOCAN 2008 (IARC) , Section of Cancer Information (19/5/2013)

IARC, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France - Tel: +33 (0)4 72 73 84 85 - Fax: +33 (0)4 72 73 85 75
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Estimated Breast Cancer Mortality Worldwide in 2008

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7.7

12.2

14.7

17.8

30
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GLOBOCAN 2008, International Agency for Research on Cancer

Trends in mortality from breast cancer in selected countries: age-standardised rate (W) per 100,000

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GLOBOCAN 2008 (IARC) , Section of Cancer Information (19/5/2013)