Breast Cancer is the leading cancer among American women and is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths.

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.

An estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2008.

An estimated 40,460 women and 450 men will die from breast cancer in 2008.

Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are due to heredity. The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significant family history of other known risk factors.

African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.

In 2008, it is estimated that 1,990 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 450 will die from it

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