Breast cancer- Incidence & Prevalence

It is a scary statistic: one in every 30 Mumbai women stands the risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime.Breast cancer, which has replaced cervical cancer as the leading cancer among women living in urban centres, is increasingly being viewed as a lifestyle disease.Its incidence is increasing because of late marriages, later age of bearing children, fewer children, shorter lactation period and lack of physical exercise.Availability of gene-based therapy has been the biggest change in the field of breast cancer. Monoclonal antibodies like Trastuzumab are used for treatment of breast cancer.The healthy lifestyle should be followed to prevent Ca breast like cutting down obesity, early motherhood and breast-feeding for a year.