Fast Facts about Breast Cancer

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• In 2003, it was estimated that 211,300 new cases of female invasive breast cancer would be diagnosed.
• In 2003, it was estimated that 55,700 cases of female non invasive cancer would be diagnosed.
• Breast cancer was expected to account for 32 percent of all new cancer cases among women in 2003 and a new case will be diagnosed every two and a half minutes.
• This year, 39,800 women are expected to die of breast cancer.
• Breast cancer is the leading overall cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 20 and 59.
• A woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes.
• Over 1 million women in the United States have died of this disease since 1970.
  
  Source: National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations