Fig. 2

Global burden of breast cancer by continents (per 100,000 women per year)(based on Ferlay et al. [8]). Figure 2 was based on seven continent model [65]. Central America and Caribbean were grouped under northern America, while New Zealand, Polynesia and Micronesia were grouped under Australia. It showed that while continent of Europe had the highest ASR incidence rate, Africa had the highest ASR mortality rate. This may differ slightly when analysis is based on United Nation’s world areas shown