* Breast cancer now affects one woman in 9 during her lifetime in the United Kingdom.
* Breast cancer
is the commonest cancer in minority ethnic groups in the UK.
* Breast cancer claims more years of life from women under 65 than coronary heart disease.
* Every week 730 new breast cancers are diagnosed and 250 women die from breast cancer.
* Each year 38,000 women are newly diagnosed and 13,100 women die from breast cancer.
* Survival rates are improving, on average 74 per cent of women are still alive five years later
Information provided by Breast Cancer Campaign
With the recently added project
review and exhibition of the maps
| This site started in 1995 to fill, what was then, a real gap on the web for UK based support and information for women affected by breast cancer. Almost all the organisations we originally provided information about now have their own websites, which you can find on the Support and Information page. The other pages on this site mainly form an archive or record of the work we did on the site during its early years - much of which is still of interest or relevance today. |