Breast carcinoma
With 70,000 new cases in Germany every year, breast carcinoma leads the sad statistics for the most common types of cancer in women. women. Currently, one in eight women will develop breast cancer in the course of their lives. The risk increases with age. Younger women are rarely affected, and the risk only increases from the age of 40 and especially from the age of 50. The average age of onset for breast cancer is around 64 years.