Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in the United States.  Although incredible advances have been made in the detection and treatment of the disease in recent years, more women die from breast cancer each year than any other cancer, except for lung.

According to the National Cancer Institute’s SEER Cancer Statistics Review, it is estimated that 207,090 women will be diagnosed with, and 39,840 women will die of, cancer of the breast in 2010.  Based on rates from 2005-2007, 12.15% of, or 1 in 8, women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time during their lifetime.