article_snippet.sent: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011, just under 50,000 women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Most women who get it (8 out of 10) are over 50, but younger women, and in rare cases, men, can also get breast cancer.
article_snippet.sent: While breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK, 8 out of ten women who get it are over 50 years old.
article_snippet.sent: I thought breast cancer was something that affected older women. '
article_snippet.sent: Women in their fifties and sixties were among the worst culprits, the poll by the charity Breast Cancer Care found, because the charity Breast Cancer Care found wrongly assumed the charity Breast Cancer Care found were in the clear after the charity Breast Cancer Care found had been through menopause.
article_snippet.sent: Britain has one of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe and this has been blamed on breast cancer being detected too late.
article_snippet.sent: Breast cancer patients in the UK have a five-year survival rate of 81 per cent, lagging behind many European countries, with France, Italy and Sweden boasting an 83 per cent survival rate back in the mid-1990s.