In brief

• Helsi recorded the first breast cancer diagnosis for 7,895 women in 2025.
• Almost a third of them, 2,488 patients, were 70 years of age or older.
• Only a quarter of the patients diagnosed had records of a mammogram or ultrasound within six months before the diagnosis.

Age structure of diagnoses

According to Helsi data, in 2025 the platform's medical records registered breast cancer for the first time in 7,895 women. Nearly one in three of them, 2,488 patients, or 31.5%, were 70 years old or older (Майже третина жінок із вперше зафіксованим раком грудей - старші за 70 років: дані Helsi – UNIAN). Overall, women over 60 account for 59.5% of new diagnoses.

Screening before diagnosis

In the same period, Helsi recorded 265 thousand mammograms and 145 thousand breast ultrasound examinations. At least one of these examinations was performed on more than 354 thousand women.

The platform's specialists also checked whether patients with a diagnosis had examinations within six months before the first record of the disease. It turned out that only one in four of them had corresponding entries in the system. At the same time, examinations may have been performed earlier or outside the data available in Helsi.

Reminder about regular checkups

The data was published a month before Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Helsi appeals to women not to postpone regular examinations, especially at older ages, where the share of diagnoses is highest.

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