Breast cancer statistics

• Breast cancer rates in England have increased by 90% since records began in 1971.
• One in 8 women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives.
• In 2009 more than 48,400 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK - around 133 women a day. Around 370 men were diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the UK – 31% of cancers diagnosed in women are breast cancer.
• Around 12,000 women in the UK die from breast cancer each year.
• Since peaking in the late 1980s, breast cancer death rates have fallen by almost 40% in the UK.