Lei Fan

TL;DR: An overview of present control measures for breast cancer across China is presented, epidemiological and socioeconomic diversities and disparities in access to care for various subpopulations are described, and demographic differences between China and high-income countries, and also within geographical and socioeconomic regions of China are described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the findings of their Cancer Commission and their recommendations to encourage Latin American stakeholders to redouble their efforts to address this increasing cancer burden and to prevent it from worsening and threatening their societies.

TL;DR: The overall state of health and cancer control in each country is described and additional specific issues for consideration are described: for China, access to care, contamination of the environment, and cancer fatalism and traditional medicine; for India, affordability of care, provision of adequate health personnel, and sociocultural barriers to cancer control.

TL;DR: It is observed that breast cancer incidence increased dramatically over the past 30 years and documented a peak incidence represented by the middle-age group (45–59 years), which emerged in the last 20 years.

TL;DR: The proportional contribution of Asia to the global breast cancer rates is increasing rapidly in parallel to the socioeconomic development, and the mortality-to-incidence ratios are much higher for Asia than for Western countries.