Breast cancer is the leading killer of women ages 35 to 54 worldwide. More than a million developed the disease without knowing it, and almost 500,000 women die from it every year. In Asia, the Philippines has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer and is considered to have the ninth highest incidence rate in the world today.
Approximately 70 percent of breast cancers occur in women with none of the known risk factors. Only about five percent of breast cancer was one in 22. Today, it is one in eight.
With the prevalence of breast cancer consistently rising for the past 30 years, particularly in developing countries, supposed authorities in the field are baffled why. (more…)
May 20th, 2009
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