Breast cancer accounted for 19% of all cases of cancer in Russians last year
In 2025, 19% of all cases of malignant neoplasms in Russian women were breast cancer. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the head of the Department of Diagnostics and Radiology in Mammology of the National Center for Oncology of Reproductive Organs.
In 2025, 19% of all cases of malignant neoplasms in Russian women were breast cancer. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the head of the Department of Diagnostics and Radiology in Mammology of the National Center for Oncology of the Reproductive Organs, Sergey Prokopenko.
In the collection “The state of cancer care to the population of Russia” for last year, which was studied by the newspaper, it is indicated that at the zero stage breast cancer was detected in more than 3.7 thousand patients. Compared to 2015, the proportion of identified patients with the first stage of cancer increased by 12 percentage points to 36%.
The overall incidence of breast cancer in Russia and the world is steadily growing, said Sergey Malygin, a member of the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (ROPRECH). At the same time, according to him, the detection rate of the disease in the III-IV stages for 10 years decreased by 23%. In 2025, it was just over 23%.
