Generally, our breasts remain healthy during the lives of each of us and do not cause disease. In the more developed portions of the world, there is a high frequency of both benign and malignant disease of the breast that develops related more, we believe, to environmental factors including diet and other lifestyle issues than to genetics. The breasts, a relatively unimportant organ for the male, also causes relatively little disease for the male, is a very important organ system in the female serving largely around the world as a source of nutrition for newborn infants and important in many societies in the helping to differentiate women from men and is an important part of the physical anatomy and psychosocial sexual lifestyle inherent in the culture in which each woman lives.
Unfortunately, the breast has a disproportionate amount of disease within it in the lifetime of a woman, thus resulting in the need for detection and diagnosis of these benign and malignant conditions. Breast cancer is the most common new cancer (22% of all new cancers), as well as leading cause of cancer deaths (14% of all cancer deaths) in women worldwide. It is estimated that there are more than a million cases of breast cancer that develop new each year, and about 375,000 women die of breast cancer in the world each year. However, there are about 4,000,000 women alive in the world that have had breast cancer and are cured of that disease.
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