Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in New Hampshire women (excluding skin cancer).
Each year, approximately 1,000 New Hampshire women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and 200 New Hampshire women will die of breast cancer.
Each year, approximately 192,000 American women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and approximately 40,000 will die from this disease.
In addition, approximately 62,000 US women will be diagnosed with in situ breast cancer each year.
Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease.
The known risk factors for breast cancer account for only a small percentage of breast cancer cases.
We do not know what causes breast cancer. We do not know how to cure it.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women between the ages of 20 and 59.
A woman in the United States has a one in eight chance of developing invasive breast cancer during her lifetime -- this risk was one in 11 in 1975.
This year, a new case of breast cancer will be diagnosed every two minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes.
