12 Countries with the Highest Breast Cancer Rates in the World

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6. Iceland

The age-standardized rate for Iceland per 100,000 is 96.3, while the number of women who are still alive five years after diagnosis is 966, putting this country on the 10th place when it comes to this measure. However, the most interesting thing in this regard is that Iceland has something called the Icelandic Cancer Registry (ICR). This is the registry that has been in operation since 1954, and it contains all of the information on incidents and treatment of breast cancer from the last decades of the 19th century to today, being very useful when it comes to following the pace of this illness.

12 Countries with the Highest Breast Cancer Rates in the World

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