Cancer Research UK and 1 in 8

Radio 4 news: “1 in 8 women will get breast cancer”. It’s based on a press release from Cancer Research UK. And it is not helpful: these are the figures, below,  for risk of breast cancer you want to know (from their press release) . At present, the headline figure media outlets are using isn’t helpful, and is alarmist. What’s more, we know that the more screening we do, the more ‘breast cancers’ we diagnose – but since many of these won’t go on to harm or impair the woman, it’s debatable whether these are true ‘cancers’ at all. I think this statistical information could have been handled a lot better by CRUK.

Up to and including age Risk
29 1 in 2000
39 1 in 215
49 1 in 50
59 1 in 22
69 1 in 13
Lifetime risk 1 in 8

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