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
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