Facts about Breast Cancer

• All women are at risk of breast cancer.
  
  
• The two greatest risk factors of developing breast cancer are being a woman and getting older.
  
  
• In the Vietnam War, over 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 1960's 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.
  
  
• When breast cancer is confined to the breast, the five-year survival rate is over 95%.
  
  
• Mammography detects approximately 2 to 3 times as many early breast cancers as physical examination.
  
  
• Breast cancer accounts for nearly 1 in 3 cancers diagnosed among women.
  
  
• Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women aged 35-54.