OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH AND THIS IS DEAR TO MY HEART! MY AUNT TONI DIED FROM BREAST CANCER 5 YEARS AGO. ANOTHER AUNT HAD IT AND SURVIVED. ON OCTOBER 30TH I AM WALKING IN THE BREAST CANCER 5K IN MEMPHIS WITH MY FRIEND KELLY FOR HER MOM WHO HAS SURVIVED BREAST CANCER ALSO! ITS JUST SOMETHING THAT WE ALL NEED TO BE AWARE OF. THIS EFFECT SO MANY WOMEN EACH YEAR!
A FEW STATS FOR YOU:
One in 8 women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.
More than 180,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women, after skin cancer.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
Breast cancer kills approximately 41,000 women in the United States each year.
Breast cancer is not one of the leading causes of death in women in general, but it is the leading cause of death in American women ages 40-55.
The incidence of breast cancer has more than doubled in the past 30 years. In 1964, the lifetime risk was 1 in 20; today it is 1 in 8.
The most important risk factor for breast cancer is being female.
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