Breast cancer deaths in the UK have fallen by 10% in the past five years, according to research released by Cancer Research UK to coincide with World Cancer Day on 4 February.
The report noted that, in 2015, 35 women in every 100,000 in the UK died as a result of breast cancer, down from 39 in every 100,000 five years earlier. CRUK said that this decrease was due to a better understanding of the genetics of the disease alongside better surgical techniques and newer, more effective drugs such as aromatase inhibitors.
