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.
Early detection offers the best protection against breast cancer.
Part 3 ISDN Men can get breast cancer, although it is rare. For every man that is diagnosed, more than 100 women are found to have breast cancer. In 1998, the American Cancer Society estimates that 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. About 400 men will die of the disease. Cancer incidence and death rates for all cancers combined and for most of the top 10 cancer sites declined between 1990 and 1995, according to a report released in March by the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.