Breast cancer
Breast cancer accounts for 28.5% of all tumours diagnosed in women (approximately 1 in 3 women with cancer has breast cancer). Incidence of breast cancer has been increasing over the last decades, while mortality has decreased by approximately 1.4% annually since the early 90s. This fact coincides with the implementation of early diagnosis programs in the Spanish Autonomous Communities.
In addition to the development and implementation of the early diagnosis program and greater information and awareness of the target population about the disease, other factors such as a greater knowledge of tumour biology, the evolution of surgery towards more conservative techniques (sentinel node), an important development of active drugs against this disease and the great technological take-off in recent years of radiation therapy with hypo fractionated treatments in 15 or 5 days (FAST Forward), tattoo-free Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT) and Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) to protect the heart in left breast cancer, have favoured not only the progressive reduction of mortality from breast cancer, but also the improvement of the quality of life in women diagnosed with this disease.
