Breast Cancer Fast Facts

• 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. 2
• The most significant risk factors for getting breast cancer are being female and getting older. 1
• An estimated 207,090 new cases in women and 1,970 new cases in men of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur in the U.S. during 2010. 1
• Breast cancer is second, only to lung cancer, in cancer deaths among women in the U.S. 1
• About 39,840 women and 390 men in the U.S. are expected to die from breast cancer in 2010.1
• One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes, and one woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the U.S.
• African America women have higher rates of distant stage breast cancer than white women and are more likely, in the U.S. to be diagnosed with larger tumors than white women. 2
• There are 2.5 million breast cancer survivors alive in the U.S. today - the largest group of all cancer survivors.
• About 80-90% of breast cancers in women without symptoms in the U.S. will be detected by mammography. 1
• Only 51.2% of women 40 and older in the U.S. reported having a mammogram in the last year. 3

For more information, please visit: Understanding Breast Cancer

1 Cancer Facts and Figures 2010, ACS
2 Breast Cancer Facts and Figures 2009-2010, ACS
3 Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Facts and Figures 2009, ACS

Local Breast Health Information

• 38% of women over the age of 40 living the the Greater Kansas City area did not get a mammogram in the last twelve months. 1

• The highest percentages of women in our service area that did not get screened in Kansas include: Atchison (41.4 %), Brown (41.1%), Doniphan (41.4%), Jackson (39.6%), and Wyandotte (39.1%) and Missouri counties include: Bates (41.6%), Buchanan (38.2%), and Johnson (39.6%). 2
• Female breast cancer mortality rates in our two largest counties, Wyandotte County, KS and Jackson County, MO, are higher than the national average (26.7 and 27.8 respectively vs 25.3). 3
• In 2012, an estimated 1,990 Kansan women and 4,440 Missouri women will be diagnosised with breast cancer. 4

For more information, please review our Community Profile

1 Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Kansas City Community Profile, 2011
2 Thomson Reuters, 2009
3 REACH Healthcare Foundation, Regional Health Assessment Report, 2010
4 American Cancer Society, 2012