ESTRO Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer 2017

Conclusions for Breast Cancer Incidence

• Female breast cancer incidence rates have been increasing in recent years in most countries

• Some of this increase might be avoided in the future by changes in lifestyle • But some of the increase is due to formal screening programmes, and some may be due to earlier diagnosis outside formal screening programmes

• This makes trends and comparisons of breast cancer incidence rates and survival hard to interpret

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