Breast Cancer Is Now Most Common Type of Cancer

Sharon Picone2021-02-15T15:23:07-05:00

GENEVA (Reuters) - Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 12% of new cases each year worldwide, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. “For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most commonly occurring cancer globally,” Andre Ilbawi, a cancer [...]

Why Age as a Risk Factor Can Be an Advantage for These Patients

2021-09-02T18:28:33-04:00

This patient says that breast imaging technology is like "turning on a light bulb." Most of the patients at Lake Medical Imaging (LMI) are at higher than average risk for breast cancer. Why? Their age – a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. Close to 80 percent of the patients at LMI are [...]