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Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the cells of the
breast in women and men. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most
common type of cancer after lung cancer (10.4% of all cancer incidence,
both sexes counted) and the fifth most common cause of cancer death. In
2004, breast cancer caused 519,000 deaths worldwide (7% of cancer
deaths; almost 1% of all deaths).
Breast cancer is about 100 times as frequent among women as
among men, but survival rates are equal in both sexes. Source: Wikipedia
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