Australia among the highest breast cancer rates in the world, but there’s a silver lining in new research [Video]

Australia has one of the highest rates of breast cancer diagnoses in the world, but our death rate is at the opposite end of the scale.

New research from The University of Sydney, The University of Queensland and Alberta Health Services, Canada, analysed global breast cancer incidence and death rates across 185 different countries.

Australia and New Zealand were revealed to have the highest rates of diagnoses in 2022, with about one in seven women and one in 550 men diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime in Australia.

Though breast cancer diagnoses have increased by 24 per cent in the last 10 years, death rates have dropped significantly and Australia has one of the lowest breast cancer mortality rates in the world.

Of the more than 21,000 people diagnosed in Australia every year, the nation …