It is the most common cancer in women who make up more than one fifth of all female cancer diagnoses. There will be approximately 3,500 new cases in Slovakia every year and approximately 1,000 women die. TASR informed about it from the civic association Not Cancer, saying that October is a month of awareness of the disease.
Alarming to consider the fact that Only about 29 percent of women aged 50 to 69 are completed by mammographic screening. “The European average, according to the OECD, is up to 57 percent. In some countries such as Denmark, Finland and Sweden, it is up to 80 percent of women,” they added. At the same time, they pointed out a significant increase in the disease in women aged 35 to 39 years.
As they recalled, women who are captured in time have the best chance of cure. Slovak data confirm that The screening age is from 45 years. “We have been collecting data at the National Oncology Institute (NOI) for the fifth year, and they clearly show that the highest seizure is from 45 to 75 years – up to 70 percent of carcinomas,” said NOI director Jana Trautenberger Ricová. For women under 45, it is 12 percent and over 75 years 18 percent.
