Pakistan, Oct. 7 -- Breast cancer casts a long and unrelenting shadow over the lives of women in Pakistan, emerging as one of the most urgent and silent public health crises the country faces today. In 2025, approximately 90,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed, accounting for an astonishing 16.5% of all cancer cases in the nation. Tragically, 40,000 women lost their lives to this disease in the same year, reflecting a mortality burden that is disproportionate for a disease whose prognosis can be dramatically improved through early detection and timely treatment. Nearly one in nine women in Pakistan is at risk of developing breast cancer during their lifetime, marking the country among the highest-risk nations in Asia. Alarmingly...