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Former First Lady of the United States, Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) was a long-term breast cancer survivor. This list of notable breast cancer patients includes people who made significant contributions to their respective fields and who were diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information.
This category is for people who died of some form of cancer. Please respect people's medical privacy . Information about people's health must always be supported by high-quality, non-self-published reliable sources .
Diagnosis dates are listed where the information is known. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. According to the United States National Cancer Institute, the rate of new cases of female breast cancer was 129.1 per 100,000 women per year. The death rate was 19.9 per 100,000 women per year.
In 2025, half a million more people will be living with cancer than in 2020, research from cancer support charity Macmillan has found, driven by an ageing population, increases in survival rates ...
Nearly one in five new cervical cancers diagnosed from 2009 to 2018 were in women 65 and older, according to a new UC Davis study.But what has experts concerned is that, according to the study ...
More younger people are being diagnosed with and dying from certain cancers, including colorectal cancer. From 2017 to 2021, the rate of these cancers rose by more than 3% per year among people ...
The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rate is 6.4 per 100,000 per year, and the death rate is 4.3 per 100,000 per year. The lifetime risk of developing brain cancer for someone born today is 0.60%.
The Women's was the first specialist teaching hospital in the Antipodes, and the first hospital in Australia to train nurses and midwives and the first in Australia to hold postgraduate classes for nurses. [3] Drs Ellen Balaam, Annie Lister Bennett and Gweneth Wisewould, some babies and a nurse at the Women’s Hospital in 1915 [4]