Black British women are being diagnosed with breast cancer on average 21 years younger than white females, according to a Cancer Research UK study.

In the first UK study to look at the patterns of breast cancer in black British women, the researchers studied 102 black women and 191 white women diagnosed with breast cancer at Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, east London, between 1994 and 2005.

They found that the black patients were diagnosed with breast cancer at an average age of 46, while the figure for white patients was 67 years.

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BEIJING (AFP) — A growing number of Chinese women contract breast cancer as a result of a more Westernised diet and more stressful lifestyles, state media reported Tuesday.

Out of China’s 630 million women, 200,000 get the disease every year, and 40,000 eventually lose their lives, the China Daily said, citing the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association and the Breast Cancer Prevention Fund.

The rising trend is particularly pronounced in China’s largest city Shanghai, where 60 out of every 100,000 women now have the disease, up from 17 per 100,000 in 1972, the paper said.

Although nutrition for millions of Chinese has improved as incomes have risen, diet-related health problems also have spiked due to increasingly sedentary lifestyles and growing consumption of western-style fatty foods.