In Catalonia, 5,337 cases of breast cancer during 2023, which represent 28.7% of tumors detected in women who pass. The gross incidence rate is 131.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. These are details that the Department of Health has facilitated this dissabte coincident with the World day against breast canceron October 19, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis.
Per demarcació, 3,952 cases are to be diagnosed in Barcelona; 566 to Tarragona; 526 to Girona and 293 to Lleida in 2023. The survival of patients is 90% within 5 years after diagnosis. In total, 1,067 women will die in Catalonia from breast cancer, 15.6% of all deaths from cancer in women.
In 2022, 5,497 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed, a figure higher than the cases detected in 2023, 5,337. In a context in which the incidence of cancer is increasing, the Department of Health interprets this as an effect in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Questions about this question, the Department points out that the recovery of cribratge activity during 2021 and 2022 can explain this push in the diagnostics of fa two years and that it is then normalized in 2023. Covid will force to close the programs of Early detection and other assistance services will be provided during the time in which the coronavirus will hit hardest in 2020. The impact will continue, to a lesser extent, during 2021 with the subsequent waves of the virus.
The survival of patients with breast cancer at five years after diagnosis is 89.3%. The raw mortality rate for breast cancer is 26.4 per 100,000 or an adjusted age-adjusted rate (for the European population) of 23.7 per 100,000.
65% of donations invited to the cribratge participate
The Department of Health reminds that early detection of breast cancer is essential to detect it in the initial stages, as it is not possible to notice or cause discomfort and when the possibility of cure is highest. In Catalonia, the Early Detection Program for this type of malaria invites children between 50 and 69 years of age to receive a mammogram every two years. Any pass is that invitations will be sent to 510,000 donations and 330,000 will participate, 65%. Annually, the program detects 1,500 cases of cancer.
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