According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the world’s most prevalent cancer. In 2020, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 685 000 women died from the disease.[1]

According to the Singapore Cancer Registry, breast cancer was the most common cancer diagnosed among women in Singapore between 2016 to 2020.[2] An estimated 1 in 13 women are affected by breast cancer at some point in their lifetime,[3] with breast cancer being the leading form of cancer mortality among women between 2016 and 2020.