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Breast Cancer Facts
- Over two million breast cancer
survivors are alive in the U.S. today.
- A woman's chance of developing cancer in
her lifetime is 1 in 8.
- A new breast cancer is diagnosed every 2.5 minutes.
- 88 percent of the pre-invasive breast cancer
diagnosed is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
- One American woman dies from breast cancer
every 13 minutes.
- Nearly 40,000 women die from breast cancer each year.
- Only lung cancer causes more cancer deaths in women.
- The American Cancer Society spends nearly $100 million
a year to research a cure for breast cancer.
- This year more than 21,000 new cases of breast
cancer are expected in the United States.
- Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among
women between the ages of 40 and 55.
- 1,600 men are expected to be diagnosed with breast
cancer this year and 400 are predicted to die.
- When breast cancer is found and treated early,
the five-year survival rate is almost 100 percent.
- Approximately 80% of breast biopsies are negative.
- The American Cancer Society recommends that all
women have a baseline screening mammogram between
the age of 35 and 40 and that beginning at the age of
40, women have an annual screening mammogram.
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