Breast cancer to cause a million deaths a year by 2040, says Lancet commission

Around 7.8 million women diagnosed with breast cancer in the last five years, with 685,000 deaths in 2020; LMICs disproportionately affected

Breast cancer is now the world's most common carcinogenic disease with the ailment likely to cause a million deaths a year by 2040, according to a new Lancet Commission on breast cancer. Around 7.8 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the last five years until 2020 and about 685,000 women died from the disease the same year, it said.