Centre for Health Protection calls for response to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, healthy lifestyle and risk-based screening to help prevent or cure breast cancer

The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health calls on women to respond to Breast Cancer Awareness Month by adopting a healthy lifestyle and undergoing risk-based screening. Over the past 10 years, the overall five-year relative survival rate for breast cancer reached 84%, rising to as high as 99.3% for stage one. As at the end of June 2026, about 1,360 high-risk women had received screening under the phase two pilot programme, of whom 17 were diagnosed with breast cancer, all at stage one or below.