They say 'God is in the details'. Many often repeated statistics or facts about breast cancer are misleading or untrue. A few extra details can completely re-frame the statistic's significance. Or a word or two that gets changed when the fact is repeated makes it false. Breast cancer is not the most common cancer among women, lung cancer is .
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in women.
So women get more breast cancer, but also many survive. Women get lung cancer less frequently than breast, but lung is more deadly. One out of eight women will get breast cancer. Breast cancer rates start to go up in the 20's and the majority of cases are after the age of 50. The number of women and the percentage rise in breast cancer have been dramatic.