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Breast cancer is an epidemic. |
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Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in New Hampshire women (excluding skin cancer). |
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According to American Cancer Society estimates, 890 New Hampshire women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and 180 New Hampshire women will die of breast cancer in 2007. |
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Approximately 178,480 American women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and approximately 40,000 women will die from this disease in 2007. |
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In addition, approximately 62,000 U.S. women will be diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in 2007. |
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Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease. |
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The known risk factors for breast cancer account for only a small percentage of breast cancer cases. |
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We do not know what causes breast cancer. We do not know how to cure it. |
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women between the ages of 20 and 59. |
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A woman in the United States has a one in eight chance of developing invasive breast cancer during her lifetime -- this risk was one in 11 in 1975. |
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This year, a new case of breast cancer will be diagnosed every two minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes. |
