| There was a time when the main victim of breast | | | | living in developing countries. Some of the reason |
| cancer was white, well off women. The disease | | | | for this change is actually because of better |
| was though to afflict only women in developed | | | | sanitation and control of diseases. The |
| societies. Breast cancer may have had a limited | | | | technological improvement in these developing |
| range in the past, but today breast cancer is | | | | countries has extended the life spans of the low |
| changing. In Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, | | | | and middle class residents. |
| breast cancer rates are rising at enormous levels. | | | | Since breast cancer affects an older demographic |
| In the past decade alone, breast cancer rates in | | | | of women, a longer life span is part of the reason |
| these less developed countries have risen as | | | | why breast cancer rates are rising in developing |
| much as seven times. The huge increase in breast | | | | countries. A further reason why breast cancer |
| cancer rates in less developed countries is quickly | | | | rates in developing countries are rising could be |
| putting an end to the well off, white woman | | | | because of the spread of western habits. Habits |
| stereotype. | | | | such as fatty diets and lack of exercise may lead |
| By the year 2020, it is estimated that 70% of | | | | to higher breast cancer rates. |
| global breast cancer rates will come from those | | | | |