So far in 2024, Oaxaca has notified 626 new diagnoses of breast cancer and the 85 percent of these correspond mainly to women who live in Central Valleys.
In terms of incidence, after Valles Centrales, the two jurisdictions with the highest number of cases are the Isthmus and Tuxtepec.
The 626 cases include 14 diagnosed in men11 of them in the Central Valleys, two in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and one in the Sierra. Neither the Costa, Mixteca or Tuxtepec have detected cases in men.
Both men and women have breasts in their structure, but are they those who develop them with the function of breastfeeding during the gestational stage and those who in 2024 concentrate the 97.7 percent of cases.
In both men and women, breast cancer involves a uncontrolled growth of breast cells how altered they are They multiply without control and form tumors.
It is in their case that the incidence of cases makes breast cancer the main cause of death due to tumor.
In 2023 Oaxaca added 179 deaths in women from breast cancerone of the highest figures in recent years and only surpassed by the 181 in 2019.
According to information from the National Institute of Geography and Statisticsdeaths due to this type of tumor occur after the age of 20, since in 2023 a woman in the age group of 20 to 24 years died.
Despite this trend of cases among young women, it is between 40 and 74 years when deaths are most frequent and after that age the trend shows a slight decrease.
Even so, in 2023 there were seven deaths in women over 85 years of age with breast cancer.
The symptoms that may occur due to breast cancer can be combined, but they are usually a nodule or thickening in the breast that does not necessarily have to involve pain; change in the size, shape or appearance of the breast; dimpling, redness, cracks, or other skin changes; change in the appearance of the nipple or surrounding skin (areola); and discharge of abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple.
