
As you may know this month is Breast Cancer Awarness Month!
An estimated 182,800 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2000.
Approximately 42,200 deaths will occur in women from breast cancer in 2000.
One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.
Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.
Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.
Seventy-seven percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.
Approximately 1400 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2000 and 400 of those men will die.
More than 1.7 million women who have had breast cancer are still alive in the United States.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer death in women 55 to 74.
KNOW THE FACTS!
Help support Breast Cancer by donating money to the
Susan G. Komen Fund for Breast Cancer & American Cancer Society.
Because with your help we can support women get access to mammograms regardless of income and Cancer research.
To donate go to: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/DON/DON_0.asp
http://cms.komen.org/komen/index.htm
An estimated 182,800 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2000.
Approximately 42,200 deaths will occur in women from breast cancer in 2000.
One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.
Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.
Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.
Seventy-seven percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.
Approximately 1400 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2000 and 400 of those men will die.
More than 1.7 million women who have had breast cancer are still alive in the United States.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer death in women 55 to 74.
KNOW THE FACTS!
Help support Breast Cancer by donating money to the
Susan G. Komen Fund for Breast Cancer & American Cancer Society.
Because with your help we can support women get access to mammograms regardless of income and Cancer research.
To donate go to: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/DON/DON_0.asp
http://cms.komen.org/komen/index.htm
(Thank you to ---> http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/breastcancer/a/breastcancfacts.htm)
P.S.: My backgrounds supports Breast Cancer Awareness!
-Mystery

