Early detection and treatment of breast cancer greatly improve the chances of a full recovery.
Breast cancer is THE leading type of cancer in women.
One in eight women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Older women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer, and the risk increases sharply after age 40. For women between the ages of 55-84, breast cancer is second only to lung cancer in robbing women of years of life. In Kansas, about 2,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, and another 4,100 women in Missouri. A diagnosis is not a death sentence.