BREAST CANCER BASE

Distribution : urban than rural

In China, female breast cancer has become the most common malignant one. Although China's low incidence of breast cancer, but the incidence of breast cancer marked difference between town and country, high-fat mainly concentrated in the large coastal cities, with Shanghai as the highest. Especially in the last 20 years, urban women the incidence of breast cancer there is an upward trend, with Shanghai as an example in 1999 than in 1974 the incidence rate more than twice as high <BR>, in certain coastal cities, female breast cancer is the most common first malignancy.