Reports by the World Health Organization in recent years indicate that breast cancer is currently the most common form of cancer among women around the world, with 1.15 million new cases every year and accounting for 10 % of all cancer cases among women.
不光是台灣，聯合國世界衛生組織近年的報告也顯示，乳癌是目前全球女性最高發生率的癌症，每年有 115 萬名新增病例，佔全球罹癌總人數的 10％！