British breast cancer rate four times higher than East Africa

BREAST cancer rates are four times higher in Britain than in Eastern Africa, new figures show.

Some 87.9 per 100,000 British women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, compared to just 19.3 women per 100,000 in Eastern Africa.

The statistics come from the World Health Organisation’s global database of disease prevalence. Eastern Africa includes Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.