• One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.
• Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women.
• Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths among women.
• Cancer kills more Americans – some 560,000 –each year than in all the wars of the 20th Century combined.
• More than 200,000 people in the United States, including more than 2,000 men, will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States in 2007.
• More than 40,000 women and 450 men will die from breast cancer in 2007.
• In the United States today, there are more than two million breast cancer survivors.
• 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 five-year relative survival rate for women with localized breast cancer (cancer that has not spread to lymph nodes or other locations outside the breast) has increased from 74 percent in 1982 to 98 percent in 2007.
• African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.

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• Breast Cancer Research
• Early Detection
• Access to Quality Care