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The Facts About Breast Cancer and Mammograms
 Getting the facts about breast cancer and mammograms is an important step in taking care of your health. This pamphlet will help you to get the information that you need. It provides information on a woman's risk for breat cancer, the National Cancer Institute's recommendations about mammograms, and the benefits and limitations of the procedure.
After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women in the United States. It is second only to lung cancer in cancer-related deaths. Approximately 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are estimated for 1997, and about 44,000 women are expected to die from the disease.
*Data gathered in a representative sample of U.S. women by NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
Source: NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program & American Cancer Society, 1993
Who is at risk for breast cancer?
Simply being a woman and getting older puts you at some risk for breast cancer. Your risk for breast cancer continues to increase over your lifetime. Several known factors can further increase you risk for breast cancer. Most women who get breast cancer have no known risk factors such as a family history of the disease. Talk to your doctor about the known risks for breast cancer.
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