Top 10 Facts About Breast Cancer
With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it is important to make sure that you know the facts.
Here are 10 important facts about Breast Cancer
Percentages
In the United States, it is reported that 1 in 8 women will have breast cancer during their lifetime. That comes out to about 12% of women having to deal with this cancer at some point in their life.
Risk Factors
While there are many different risk factors that can lead to having breast cancer, there are a few big important ones. Two of the biggest factors of this are if you are a woman and over the age of 40. This is when almost 95% of the case when Breast Cancer is detected in the United States.
Screening
Getting screened for breast cancer can give you almost a 50% chance of not dying from this disease rather than those who are not screened.
How Many Are Diagnosed?
In the United States, experts usually forecast that about 220,000 women will be affected by breast cancer and that over 40,000 individuals will die from it.
Mortality
Breast cancer is actually the second type of cancer death that affects women in the United States the most and globally it is the number one cancer-related death for women.
Survivors
Breast cancer survivors are the largest group of cancer survivors with more than 3.5 million survivors.
Declining Death
Since the 1990s, deaths from breast cancer have declined immensely due to new technologies and greater knowledge with more treatment solutions.
Diagnosis
It is reported that in every 2 minutes, a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States
Deaths
Anywhere in the world within 1 minute, a woman will die from breast cancer. That is almost 1,400 women per day.
Men
Men have significantly lower chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer with about 1 in 1000 men being diagnosed in their lifetime.
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