Not exact matches
Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results,
over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative risk of
death from breast cancer.»
Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent
over 800000 child
deaths and 20000
deaths from breast cancer every year.
Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save
over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all
deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000
deaths from breast cancer every year.
The UK has seen greater decreases in the number of women dying
from breast cancer than many other European countries
over this period, though this is partly because
death rates were relatively high in the 1980s.
An estimated 215,000 cases are diagnosed in the US every year and
over 40,000
deaths will result
from breast cancer.