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In the United States today, there are more than two million breast cancer survivors.
An estimated 212,920 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2006.
An estimated 40,970 women will die from breast cancer in 2006.
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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) accounted for 85 percent of in situ breast cancers diagnosed from 1998-2002.
Breast cancer death rate has been dropping about 2 percent annually since 1990 to 2002 in all women combined, with larger decreases in younger (<50 years) women, a decline attributed to earlier detection through screening, increased awareness, and improved treatment.
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.
The chance of a woman dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 33 (3 percent).
An estimated 1,720 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2006.
An estimated 460 men will die from breast cancer in 2006.
The relative survival rates for women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 40 are slightly lower.
82 percent for women younger then 40
89 percent for women aged 40-74
88 percent for women aged 75 and older
African American women are less likely to survive five years than white women, 76 percent vs. 90 percent respectively.
The relative survival rates for women diagnosed with breast cancer are:
88 percent at 5 years after diagnosis
80 percent after 10 years
71 percent after 15 years
63 percent after 20 years
Approximately five to ten 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.
A woman’s chance of developing breast cancer increases with age. In the United States, a woman has about a 13.2 percent, or 1 in 8, lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.
