Breast cancer is the most common form of incident cancer and the dominant cause of cancer-related death among women aged 0-74 across the European Union. Female mortality due to lung cancer is significantly lower than that of breast cancer, and is also lower in women than men, but has been steadily rising (Bosetti et al 2008, Boyle Lewin 2008). Across the EU/EEA countries, men are more affected by HIV than women, with an infection ratio of 2:1. In women the predominant routes of transmission are heterosexual contact and injection drug use (ECDC 2008a). In terms of other sexually transmitted infectious diseases, a.
