Breast cancer accounts for 1 of every 3 cancer diagnoses in
women in the United States. 200,000 women will be diagnosed with
invasive breast cancer in the United States this year. Nearly
40,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. 21/2 million
breast cancer survivors are alive today in the United States.
95% of women in the United States who are diagnosed with breast
cancer are age 40 or older. Source: Susan G. Komen for the Cure
(www.komen.org) Women in the United States have a 12.15%, or 1
in 8, chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer. American
Cancer Society (www.cancer.org) In the Vietnam War, more than
50,000 Americans died. Each year, almost as many women die of
breast cancer. A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3
minutes. A woman dies from breast cancer every 11 minutes. In
the 1960s a woman’s risk of breast cancer was 1 in 14; today a
woman’s risk of breast cancer is 1 in 8. 85% of women diagnosed
with breast cancer have no prior family history. Mammography
detects approximately