The American Cancer Society is the leader in the fight to end
breast cancer: - We invest more in breast cancer research than
any other cancer type - to find, prevent, treat, and cure the
disease. - We're in every community providing free information
and services to people fighting the disease. Today, one in every
two women newly diagnosed with breast cancer turns to us for
help and support. - We have helped more than 4 million women get
potentially lifesaving breast cancer screening tests. Breast
cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United
States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause
of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. The chance of a
woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is
a little less 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is
about 1 in 36. Breast cancer death rates have been going down.
This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and
better treatment. Right now there are more than 2½ million
breast cancer survivors in