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2010 Breast Cancer Facts

• One person is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes in the United States.
  
  
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
  
  
• One of every eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime; 1 in 33 will die from it.
  
  
• In the U.S. there were 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,170 deaths from breast cancer in 2009.
  
  
• More than 40,000 women and more than 400 men die from breast cancer each year.
  
  
• More than 2 million women in the U.S. are living as breast cancer survivors.
  
  
• African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.
  
  
• 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 or other known risk factors.