Breast Cancer Care
Breast Cancer - Get the Facts
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the United
States (other than skin cancer). Each year in the United
States, more than 192,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Who Gets Breast Cancer?
Anyone can get breast cancer. For example, did
you know…
• the older a woman, the more likely she is to get
breast cancer?
• young women can and do get breast cancer, even in
their 20s?
• white women are more likely to get breast cancer
than women of any other racial or ethnic group?
• African American women are more likely to die
from breast cancer than white women?
• men can get breast cancer? Out of every one hundred
cases of breast cancer, one will occur in a man.
Estimated new cases and deaths from breast cancer in the United States in 2011:
New cases: 230,480 (female); 2,140 (male)
Deaths: 39,520 (female); 450 (male)
