Is breast cancer on the rise?

Is breast cancer on the rise?

Richard E. Gould (Hematologist/Oncologist, Cedars-Sinai Outpatient Cancer Center) gives expert video advice on: What are the most common types of breast cancer?; What causes breast cancer?; Is breast cancer fatal? and more...

Actually the incidence of breast cancer is decreasing, and it's one of the exciting things that we've just noticed is that over the last couple of years there's been a decrease in the number of new breast cancer diagnoses in the United States. It's not clear exactly why that is. Some people are hypothesizing that the downward trend in the number of women on hormone replacement therapy is decreasing the number of new breast cancers, or maybe it's because more women are using Tamoxifen or other medications to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. But it has been noted that the number of new breast cancers are decreasing and that is an exciting thing.