c Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among Malaysian women in

2002. This is true for all races. 

c Breast cancer comprised 30.4% of all newly diagnosed cancer cases among
Malaysian women in 2002
c A woman in Malaysia has a 1 in 19 chance of getting breast cancer in her
lifetime
c Among Chinese Malaysians, the risk is 1 in 14 
c Among Indian Malaysians, the risk is 1 in 15 
c Among Malays, the risk is 1 in 24 

c The Age Standardised Rate (ASR) of female breast cancer in Malaysia is 52.8
per 100,000 people.
c For Chinese Malaysians, the ASR is 70.1 per 100,000 
c For Indian Malaysians, the ASR is 61.7 per 100,000 
c For Malays, the ASR is 41.9 per 100,000 
c The ASR of female breast cancer in Malaysia is higher than that in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Shanghai, but it is lower than that in Australia and the UK. 
c Out of the 4,337 new cases of female breast cancer cases reported to the
National Cancer Registry of Malaysia in 2002, 52.3% were for women less
than 50 years old.

(Source: The Malaysian National Cancer Registry report for 2002, released on July 4,
2003.)