Is there a sex bias for breast cancer? Awareness Women and Breast

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Most prevalent cancers worldwide in 2000
expressed as thousands of persons diagnosed with cancer the previous five years
Is there a
sex bias for breast cancer?
Univ.‐Prof. Dr. Margarethe HOCHLEITNER
World Cancer Report, WHO, IARC Press, Lyon 2003, p14
Hochleitner/Fiegl/Thöni
Hochleitner/Fiegl/Thöni
Awareness
• Herztod ist männlich besetzt!
Bild: http://www.br‐online.de/umwelt‐gesundheit/thema/herz/index.xml
• Mammakarzinom + Osteoporose
ist weiblich besetzt!
Women and Breast Cancer
• Austria, 2009:
83% women > 40 years
• Mammography:
41% women > 40 years
41% women
> 40 years within the last 12 last 12
months
• Austria, 2009:
1594, 4% of all women died due to breast
cancer
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What about the men?
• 2009:
12 men died due to breast cancer
(13 men died due to testicular cancer)
Data show, men with breast cancer
often come to the oncologic centre
in an advanced stage of the disease, and
d all have
ll h
a poorer prognosis.
i
Their small number does not justify
screen examination, but …..
Awareness
• Herztod ist männlich besetzt!
Bild: http://www.br‐online.de/umwelt‐gesundheit/thema/herz/index.xml
• Mammakarzinom + Osteoporose
ist weiblich besetzt!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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