By 2050, women will no longer die of breast cancer

By 2050, women are virtually cease to die from breast cancer, experts believe. This will result in changes in diet and making progress in treatment.

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Scientists from 30 British universities have made a plan to combat breast cancer And if clearly follow it, then in the next 40 years, mortality from this disease could be reduced to 5%. Moreover, the plan should work, even if in all these years science has not be able to create an effective cure for breast tumors. As scientists believe that by 2025 the number of victims of breast cancer should be reduced by 20%. Meanwhile in the UK each year, 50 000 new cases of the disease and 11,500 women die.

According to scientists, thousands of cases breast cancer   in the foreseeable future, women will be able to simply avoid if they change diet, reduce the number of alcohol and begin to exercise regularly. Statistics fighting cancer is encouraging. In 1971-75 only 52% of women with breast cancer live more than 5 years, in 1981-85 the figure was already 62% in 1991-95 - 72%, and in 2005-09 had 85%. If all will develop at a pace that in 40 years of dying of breast cancer is generally no one.

"We hope that in 40 years the death rate from breast cancer is insignificant, - says the executive director of Breast Cancer Campaign, funded the study, Baroness Divides Morgan. - It can be cured, can be prevented, but now we are pressed for time. If we do not start working now, by 2030 Britain will be 1, 2 million victims of breast cancer - the most common female tumor disease. " (READ MORE)

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