Breast Cancer Awareness Much Needed in India - Shocking Results and Celebrities Initiatives.
Breast cancer in India is now on its hype and we could witness more and more number of patients being diagnosed with breast cancer. I came across some stats on the same lately and the numbers shocked me. I would be discussing these stats in detail and explain how influencers around the world are taking efforts to bring awareness of breast cancer among women. Younger age group are more prone to Breast Cancer The horizontal line at the bottom represents age groups from 20-30, 30-40 and so on. While the verticle line on Y-axis represents numbers in percentage. The red and blue bars represent the present and 25 years back data. If we look at the graph carefully, 25 years back 2% of the women who suffered from breast cancer fell in the 20 to 30 years age group when compared to present which is 4%. Now if you look at the next age group which is 30-40, there has been a huge increase in BC patients from 7% to 16%. This clearly shows that the increasing number of patients are falling ...