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Breast Cancer

Bobbi Jones

Facts about Breast Cancer...

--80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have NO known risk factors. 5-10% have a family history of breast cancer. Only 10% have some risk factor.

--According to the American Cancer Society, 175,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 43,300 will die. Research reveals that the mortality rate could decrease by 30% if all women age 50 and older in need of a mammogram had one.

--During the 10 years of the Vietnam War, 58,000 men and women died. During that same ten-year period, 330,000 women died of breast cancer.

--Most women who are diagnosed with breast cancer survive the disease. If detected early, breast cancer has a five-year survival rate of over 95%.

This information taken from the Komen Breast Health Foundation


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