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• Every 2 minutes, there is a new breast cancer diagnosis.

 

• Every 14 minutes, a life is lost to the disease.

 

• About 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.

 

• About 64,640 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).

 

• About 39,620 women will die from breast cancer 

 

• 85% of all diagnoses have no family history.

 

• 1 in 8 (12%) women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

 

• Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between ages 40 and 55.

 

• When female breast cancer incidence rates are examined by race and ethnicity, the descending order is White, African American, Asian/Pacific Islander (A/PI), Hispanic/Latina, and American Indian/Alaskan Native(AI/AN). (Check Graphs under statistic tab)

 

• Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung cancer.

 

• The chance that breast cancer will be responsible for a woman's death is about 1 in 36 (about 3%).

 

• Death rates from breast cancer have been declining since about 1989, with larger decreases in women younger than 50. 

 

• At this time there are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

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