In the United Kingdom, every year more than 40,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed and more than 9,000 women die of breast cancer. This represents nearly 30 women dying every day from breast cancer.

According to Breast Cancer Care, which is a National Support Organisation in UK, that 72% of women over the age of 50 were unaware that breast cancer was more common in older women.

Women ignore breast cancer symptoms (with at least three months delay) and as a result have 7% lower chance of surviving the disease. 

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) can double the risk of breast cancer in women taking combined oestrogen and progesterone therapy compared with those taking oestrogen alone, especially in unsupervised and long term users.

Risk of premenopausal breast cancer in mothers can be reduced by 4%, if they breast feed for more than a year.

Women who ate more than 90 grams of fat every day were twice as likely to develop breast cancer than those who ate less than 40grams.

Recently, some attention and study has been focused on deodorant sprays derived from zirconium and aluminum and its link to breast cancer, especially in cases of excessive use. (e.g. by teenagers as well as in long term users).