Cancer has one of the highest mortality rates worldwide. In 2015, there were estimated 17.5 million cancer cases followed by 8.7 million deaths (Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, 2017). Among different kinds of cancers, breast cancer is one the most important health problems around the world (Sharma, 2019). One of the most comprehensive assessment in 2004 showed that breast cancer was the most common cancer worldwide among women. It was the leading cause of death for women in the world, the second in Africa and Southeast Asia after Cervical cancer while it was in the fifth place in West Pacific (World Health Organization, 2008). The more recent studies confirm that these statistics are still remaining true. In 2012, breast cancer was the most common cancer type with 13.8% of all cancer cases (Ferlay et al., 2013). A study in China, India and Russia, showed that breast cancer was the second cause of death
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