Figure 1

Globalissation of breast cancer. Average, annual age-standardised truncated (age 30 to 74 years) breast cancer incidence rates (1975 onwards) in Mumbai and Chennai (India), China (Hong Kong and Shanghai), Colombia (Cali), Japan (Miyagi, Osaka, Yamagata), France (Bas Rhin, Calvados, Doubs, Isere, Somme, Tarn), Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia) and of whites and blacks in the United States Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program (Atlanta, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, San Francisco-Oakland, Seattle-Puget Sound, Utah).