Shocking Facts About Breast Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, in the United States there will be 192,370 new female breast cancer cases, and 1,910 new male breast cancer cases in 2009. In 2009, 40,170 females and 440 males will die from breast cancer in America. The Michigan Department of Community Health says that 5 to10 percent of breast cancer is linked to genetic ties. Breast cancer is the next most common cancer among women, second only to skin cancer, says the Breast Cancer Fund.
Global Statistics
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has found that 1.3 million people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year throughout the world; this means that within the next 25 years, 32.5 million individuals will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and for 465,000 each year, the diagnosis will prove to be fatal. All told, in the next 25 years, 11.6 million people will die from breast cancer worldwide. Somewhere on Earth, a female dies every 68 seconds because of breast cancer.
United States Statistics
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has concluded that one out of eight women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer at some point during their lifetime. For women between the ages of 40 to 59, the leading cause of cancer deaths is breast cancer. Among all women, lung cancer is the only one that results in more deaths each year than breast cancer. A new case is diagnosed every three minutes, and every 13 minutes a woman dies because of breast cancer, just in the United States.
Breast Cancer By Race
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer rates are highest among white females followed by African American Women, Alaskan Natives/American Indians, Hispanics and Pacific Islanders/Asians.
Survivors
The Young Survival Coalition says that there are currently 250,000 breast cancer survivors living in America. All of these survivors were diagnosed when they were under the age of 40. Younger women usually have lower survival rates and their cancer spreads faster.
There are five different stages of breast cancer, and each has its own survival rate. According to the American Cancer Society, there is a 100 percent 5-year survival rate for stage 0, 100 percent for stage I, 86 percent for stage II, 57 percent for stage III and 20 percent for stage IV.
Funding
The National Cancer Institute provides $2,596 of breast cancer funding for each new case and $13,452 of funding for each breast cancer related death.
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