Breast Cancer Facts

About Breast Cancer 

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK (excluding non-melnoma skin cancer) and accounts for more than 1/4 of all cancers in women.

Around 125 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer every day.  This means, each year almost 46,000 cases of breast cancer are diasnosed in the UK.

Although the disease claims around 12,400 lives in a year, 8 out of 10 women will now survive beyond 5 years (compared with 5 out of 10 in the 1970s).

Men also develop develop breast cancer with 300 new cases a year.

Progress

Breast cancer death rates have fallen by almost a 1/5 over the last 10 years. 

This has been helped partly by the NHS breast screening programme which helps detect cancers at an earlier stage and by the continued research and development undertaken by Cancer Research UK.

Last year Cancer Research UK spent nearly £44m on groundbreaking work into the disease and because the charity is the single biggest funder of breast cancer research it is well placed to make significant advances that will continue to save many lives - which is why we have chose them as our charity.