Saints Memorial WomanHealth An Overview of Breast Cancer Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in American women. Each year in the United States, more than 182,000 women learn they have this disease. Although breast cancer may not be prevented, it often can be survived.
Early detection increases the breast cancer survival rate.
Your risk doubles if your mother or sister has had breast cancer. It is even higher if they developed breast cancer before menopause. Premalignant cells on biopsy. Women who have had a previous breast biopsy that was benign but showed certain suspicious cells are at increased risk. Age Two-thirds of all breast cancers occur in women over 50.