Every Woman Is At Risk.
Breast cancer is an epidemic.
It is the most common form of cancer in New Hampshire women. New Hampshire's breast cancer mortality rate ranks among the highest n the nation. In 1997 approximately 960 New Hampshire women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Seventy-five percent of new cases are diagnosed in women with no family history of breast cancer. Overall, women with breast cancer are dying at the same rate today as they did in the 1930s.