Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women in the United States.
Both its causes and the means for its cure remain undiscovered. Over 2 million breast cancer survivors are alive in America. Men can develop breast cancer too, although its incidence is low. In the United States, one out of nine women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, a risk that was one out of 14 in 1960. This year, a breast cancer case will be newly diagnosed every three minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes.