BREAST cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. In Malaysia, one in every 19 women has a chance of getting breast cancer. It is also the leading cause of death for Malaysian women with cancer.
In 2020, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), nearly 2.3 million new breast cancer cases were diagnosed, and 700,000 died of it. In the same year, there were 8,418 new breast cancer cases and 3,505 breast cancer deaths in Malaysia.
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