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Breast cancer is the most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in women around the world[1]. In Indian women, breast cancer is the second most common cancer, next only to carcinoma cervix. But in many urban areas in India, the breast cancer has recently emerged as the leading cancer in women [2].Breast cancer constitutes about 19-34% of all cancer cases among women in India [3,4,5]. Age adjusted incidence of breast cancer in India varies from 16 to 25 per lac population and approximately 80,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year.[6]. With the rapid urbanization and changing lifestyle, the numbers are likely to increase further.

Most common Types of Cancer - Breast Cancer

Breast cancer
Breast cancer(malignant breast neoplasm) is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast either from the inner lining of milk ducts (Ductal carcinoma) or the lobules (Lobular carcinoma) that supply the ducts with milk. there is also rare cases that breast cancer starts in other areas of the breast. In 2010, over 250,000 new cases of breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S. alone and the risk of getting invasive breast cancer during life time of a women is 1/8.