Breast cancer reality check: We're dying more than we should

Some of the deaths due to breast cancer are caused by the disparity in access to cancer care between the rich and poor in Malaysia. — AFP

Globocan– an acronym for Global Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence – is a project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that provides estimates by cancer site and sex using the best available data in each country and several methods of estimation.

Globocan estimated that there were 23,218 new cancer cases in Malaysian females in 2018, with 12,458 deaths.