Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the world as well in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ... The Regional Executive Director of Health Affairs of the National Guard in the Eastern Sector, Dr. Ahmed Al-Arfaj, estimated that the incidence of cancer in the Kingdom is approximately 24 percent of all types of cancer in women . According to Dr. Al-Arfaj, the National Oncology Registry in the Kingdom estimated about 18 cases per 100,000 women, indicating that they are the lowest rates compared to other countries, as in America it is about 120 cases per 100 thousand, and in Canada about 98 cases per 100 thousand, and in Kuwait 36 cases per 100,000, explaining that studies indicated that the Kingdom diagnoses 800 new cases of breast tumors annually, and the average age for women is 48 years.
This came during the breast cancer activities that were held recently in the dispensary of King Fahd Residential City, which aim to educate women in particular about the importance of preventing breast cancer, highlighting the importance of early detection in raising the rate of cure from the disease, indicating that breast cancer is the most common type of cancer. Among women in the world ..
He considered that spreading awareness to combat breast cancer and conveying awareness-raising messages is important to reduce the rate of infection in the Kingdom, stressing the need for early examination to discover and treat the disease.
He pointed out that studies have shown that 24 percent of breast cancer cases in women are diagnosed in the third stage, where the tumor is localized advanced and spread to the lymph nodes, and in 18 percent of cases the disease has spread outside the breast and lymph nodes to the bones, liver and lung, and in About 35% of cases the prevalence is limited.
