A woman dies of breast cancer every 11 minutes.
Breast cancer is an epidemic.
It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America women today. There are 1.8 million women in this country who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and 1 million more who do not yet know they have the disease. This year 182,000 women and 1,000 men will discover that they have breast cancer, and 46,000 will die from the disease. The death rate from breast cancer has not been reduced significantly in more than 50 years. The incidence of breast cancer among American women is rising each year.