Did You Know…
Breast cancer death rates have slowly decreased since 1989, for an overall decline of 43% through 2020, in part due to better screening and early detection efforts, increased awareness, and continually improving treatment options! 🎗️
Approximately 64% of breast cancer cases are diagnosed at a localized stage, before cancer has spread outside of the breast, when it is easiest to treat. 🎗️
Approximately 15% of women diagnosed have a family history of breast cancer. Those with a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) with breast cancer are nearly twice as likely to develop breast cancer themselves!
Black women have the lowest 5-year relative breast cancer survival rate of any racial or ethnic group.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for Hispanic women.
Chinese and Japanese women have the highest breast cancer survival rates.
*All information was gathered from the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.*
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