Report suggests people with breast cancer are being ‘systematically left behind’

Many people with breast cancer are being “systematically left behind” due to inaction on inequities and hidden suffering, experts have said.

Breast cancer is now the world’s most common cancer, and at the end of 2020 7.8 million women were alive having been diagnosed in the previous five years.Estimates suggest global breast cancer incidence will rise from 2.3 million new cases in 2020 to more than three million by 2040, and one million deaths from the disease per year are projected by 2040.

The Lancet Commission’s lead author, Professor Charlotte Coles, department of oncology, University of Cambridge, said: “Recent improvements in breast cancer survival represent a great success of modern medicine.“Our commission builds on previous evidence, presents new data and integrates patient voices to shed light on a large unseen burden.

The study – which limited its scope to the UK to assess these impacts in a country where healthcare is free at the point of use – found many people experienced a fall in income, job loss and difficulty paying for travel costs to treatment following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

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