5 things you need to know about breast cancer right now
News Staff
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Body
Every 14 seconds, a woman somewhere in the world is diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s the most common cancerworldwide, with an estimated 2.3 million new cases each year. And rates have been slowly increasing over the past two decades. The good news is that death rates are dramatically decreasing— there’s been a 43 percent decline since 1989. This is in large part due to improvements in both detection and treatments, says Eric Winer, MD, director of Yale Cancer Center and president and physician- in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital.