Cancer %
I'd love to know if there is a big increase in breast cancer and other cancers since 2019. I'm hearing of so many and from strangers on the phone in my job and personally from all different age group...
Forum Discussion
Until I got diagnosed with breast cancer I didn’t know much about it and no one in my family ever had it.
It’s fair to say it wasn’t on my radar.
When my breast cancer surgeon told me the statistic that one in eight Australian women would be diagnosed with breast cancer I was totally shocked .
At my two yearly routine check up with my dermatologist about 12 months after my BC diagnosis we were discussing this statistic and she said to me “ when I was at med school it was one in 15 - what has caused the increase”?She is a fairly mature lady.
I thought to myself “ well you’re the Dr!”
Which goes to show that these answers are not easily revealed.
I do understand that part of the reason for the increased percentage is that women are living longer ( so longer to get the disease) and screening has got more widespread and better at picking it up .
It’s fair to say it wasn’t on my radar.
When my breast cancer surgeon told me the statistic that one in eight Australian women would be diagnosed with breast cancer I was totally shocked .
At my two yearly routine check up with my dermatologist about 12 months after my BC diagnosis we were discussing this statistic and she said to me “ when I was at med school it was one in 15 - what has caused the increase”?She is a fairly mature lady.
I thought to myself “ well you’re the Dr!”
Which goes to show that these answers are not easily revealed.
I do understand that part of the reason for the increased percentage is that women are living longer ( so longer to get the disease) and screening has got more widespread and better at picking it up .