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Article: Breast cancer quick facts
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- June 4, 2008
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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second most common cancer death among women, after lung cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer death for women under 50.
78 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Winnipeg have caught it before it spread to their lymph nodes.
The average age of a Manitoba woman diagnosed with breast cancer is 63.4 years.
About 107 Manitoba women per 100,000 have breast cancer.
Northern Manitoba has the lowest rates of breast cancer in the province -- nearly half what's recorded in Winnipeg and the Interlake -- largely due in part to a high aboriginal population. Researchers are still puzzled as to why.
Between 1997 and ...