All women are at risk for breast cancer.
Excluding skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Every year, about 180,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and about 44,000 will die from the disease. Breast cancer accounts for one out of every three cancer diagnoses in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that 3,600 Wisconsin women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, and 900 Wisconsin women will die from breast cancer. Watch this video from the American Cancer Society and learn how to do a breast self-examination.