Women all over the world live fearing breast cancer, an insidious disease that occurs with no known risk factors. With a mere five to 10 percent of cases linked to heredity, being a female over 40 years old is the only risk factor. Nearly 2.3 million women around the world were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, leading to 670,000 deaths. It is the most prevalent cancer among women in Egypt, representing 34.9 percent of all cancer cases as of 2022, amounting to around 27,000 cases, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Cancer Observatory (Globocan) report. Breast cancer is also the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Egypt, following liver cancer, with an estimated mortality rate of 10.8 percent in 2020, as reported by WHO’s 2020 Cancer Country Profile of Egypt. By 2050, cases are projected to reach roughly 46,000 among Egyptian women, a 2014 study by Egypt’s National Cancer Registry Program (NCRP), reported. While Egypt has placed cancer, especially tumors, at the forefront of its health priorities under its Vision 2030 initiative, striving to achieve the highest recovery rates possible, breast cancer faces one major issue. The…
