Breast Cancer Facts

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In the United States more women experience breast cancer than any other form of cancer, except cancer of the skin.² Here are a few facts about breast cancer:

• Women have a 1–in–8 chance of developing the disease¹
• Women have about a 1–in–35 chance of dying from breast cancer¹
• Mammography screening has been shown to reduce mortality from breast cancer through earlier detection¹
• Mammography alone reduces the relative risk of dying from breast cancer by only about 23%.²
• Women diagnosed while breast cancer is confined to the breast have a cure rate approaching 100%.²

Sources:
¹American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org
²Chapman, C. et al., March 2007, “Autoantibodies in Breast Cancer: Their Use as an Aid to Early Diagnosis.”, Annals of Oncology (online publication), 18:868-873.