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Breast cancer statistics: Breast cancer incidence rates decrease in Armenia (video)

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The number of women suffering from breast cancer has decreased in Armenia by 20 percent, the findings of the Armenian American Wellness Center show. “If earlier every 16th woman in Armenia was diagnosed with breast cancer, today we can declare the there has been decline in the number of cases and today bread cancer is found among every 20th woman,” AAWC Director Khachanush Hakobyan said on Monday.  “Prevention is always better than treatment. Our society seems to have come to realize this fact.” Overall, 40,000 women were examined in the Center in 2014.