Breast Cancer: By the Numbers

1 in 8: Odds that you will be diagnosed with breast cancer if you are a woman.

Every 2 minutes: How often a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.

40,450: Number of deaths caused by breast cancer in 2016.

246,660: Number of new cases of invasive breast cancer in American women in 2016.

250,000: Number of American women under 40 who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

2.8 Million: Number of breast cancer survivors alive today in the United States.

Source: webMD, American Cancer Society