Did you know?

 Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for all women and the leading overall cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 20 and 59

• In the United States, breast cancer is expected to be newly diagnosed every three minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes

• African American women have a higher breast cancer death rate than women of any other racial or ethnic population

• Eighty percent of all breast tumors are benign

• In 2007, it was estimated that there would be 178,480 new cases of breast cancer in women and 2,030 new cases of breast cancer in men. Of these, an estimated 40,460 women and 450 men will die from the disease

• The basic treatment choices for breast cancer are surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy

• The most common risk factors of breast cancer are sex, age, personal history, family history and breast cancer genes

• The highest risk factor for breast cancer is being female with the disease being 100 times more common among women

• The risk of breast cancer increases as a woman grows older

• Women who have had breast cancer and women with a history of breast disease may develop it again

• The risk of developing breast cancer increases for a woman whose mother, sister, daughter or two or more relatives have had the disease

• Some women and men may be born with a change in one or two genes that are important for regulating breast cell growth. Those who inherit an alteration in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are at an inherited higher risk for breast cancer

• The hormone Estrogen may also play a key role in the risk factors of breast cancer including having an early first period or menstrual bleeding, having a first pregnancy after the age

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