Breast Cancer Facts
• Without a cure, 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will continue to be diagnosed with breast cancer — a devastating disease with physical, emotional, psychological and financial pain that can last a lifetime.
• Without a cure, an estimated 5 million Americans will be diagnosed with breast cancer — and more than 1 million could die — over the next 25 years.
• Breast cancer is the leading cancer among American women and is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths.
• One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes and one woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the United States.
• An estimated 40,460 women and 450 men will die from breast cancer in 2008.
• Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are due to heredity. The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significant family history or other known risk factors.
• African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.
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