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Cancer affects one in eight women
182,000 women and 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007
April McCormick
Issue date: 10/17/07 Section: Editorial
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My cousin died from it. My grandma has had several close calls. So has my mom. I will always have to be vigilant. Breast cancer hits close to home.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. According to www.thebreastcancersite.com, each year 182,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 die. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer exceeds 95 percent. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages 40-55.
Early detection is the key to survival. Mammography is among the best-known methods of early detection. Better treatment options include chemotherapy and lumpectomy procedures as well as mastectomy. Yet 13 million U.S. women 40 years of age or older have never had a mammogram.
The National Cancer Institute and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that women in their forties and older have mammograms every one to two years.
One website gives people a chance to help fund mammograms for uninsured and underinsured women under the age of 50 across the country. In 2005 the Pink Ribbon Challenge at www.thebreastcancersite.com broke all records.
More than 600 women received life-saving mammograms. In 2006, visitor clicks funded 2,612 mammograms and visitors who made purchases at the site store funded an additional 2,955 mammograms, totaling 5,567 mammograms for the year.
Except for skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women, according to the Center for Disease Control. Breast cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer among Hispanic women and the second most common cause of death from cancer among white, black, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native women.
The National Cancer Institute estimates in 2007, there will be 180,510 new breast cancer cases in the U.S. Of those cases, 178,480 will be female, and 2,030 will be male. The Institute estimates 40,910 will die of breast cancer. The deaths will include 40,460 females and 450 males.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. According to www.thebreastcancersite.com, each year 182,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 die. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer exceeds 95 percent. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women ages 40-55.
Early detection is the key to survival. Mammography is among the best-known methods of early detection. Better treatment options include chemotherapy and lumpectomy procedures as well as mastectomy. Yet 13 million U.S. women 40 years of age or older have never had a mammogram.
The National Cancer Institute and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that women in their forties and older have mammograms every one to two years.
One website gives people a chance to help fund mammograms for uninsured and underinsured women under the age of 50 across the country. In 2005 the Pink Ribbon Challenge at www.thebreastcancersite.com broke all records.
More than 600 women received life-saving mammograms. In 2006, visitor clicks funded 2,612 mammograms and visitors who made purchases at the site store funded an additional 2,955 mammograms, totaling 5,567 mammograms for the year.
Except for skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women, according to the Center for Disease Control. Breast cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer among Hispanic women and the second most common cause of death from cancer among white, black, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native women.
The National Cancer Institute estimates in 2007, there will be 180,510 new breast cancer cases in the U.S. Of those cases, 178,480 will be female, and 2,030 will be male. The Institute estimates 40,910 will die of breast cancer. The deaths will include 40,460 females and 450 males.
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