Research has played a crucial role in this progress leading to improved treatments and better management for women with the disease.
The introduction of the NHS(国民保健制度) breast screening program has also contributed as women are more likely to survive the earlier cancer is diagnosed. Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK with 45 ,500 women every year diagnosed with the disease-a 50% rise in 25 years.
The number of deaths peaked in 1989, when 15,625 women died. It then fell by between 200 and 400 deaths each year until 2004.
There was a slight rise in 2005 and then two years of falls.
Dr Sarah Cant, policy manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: It is great news that fe-wer women are dying from breast cancer and highlights the impact of improved treatments, breastscreening and awareness of the disease.
However, this is still too many women and incidence (发生率) of the disease is increasing year by year.
The rising rate of breast cancer diagnosis has been put down to a variety of factors including obesity(肥胖) and alcohol consumption.
16. 11,990 women died from breast cancer in the UK in 2007.
A. Right
B. wrong
C. Not mentioned
17. Breast cancer deaths began to be recorded in the UK in 1971.
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