Md. School assembly promotes breast cancer awareness Girls informed of deadly disease Breast cancer facts More than 75 percent of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are age 50 or older. Approximately 182,800 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and approximately 40,800 women will die from breast cancer. Mammography can prevent thousands of breast cancer deaths each year.
Men can get breast cancer, but females are much more likely to be diagnosed with it.
For every man who is diagnosed, over 100 women are found to have breast cancer. Women under age 40 account for only five percent of breast cancer cases. Exercise and good nutrition may help to lower a woman's risk of getting breast cancer. However, the cancer is not preventable. White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than African-American women.