Unhealthy lifestyle, obesity, lack of breast feeding, environmental radiation and late diagnosis of the disease puts many Pakistani women at a risk of breast cancer.

Cancer can be cured if it is diagnosed in the early stages. Efforts to reduce the disease fatality are hindered by a number of factors like high cost of the treatment, poverty and lack of diagnostic facilities for screening in rural areas. Hesitancy to speak about the disease was a major hindrance in early screening of the disease.
Source-Medindia