• Breast cancer accounts for one in every three cancer diagnoses in women. An estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women and 1,910 in men in the United States during 2008.

•  An estimated 40,170 women and 440 men will die from breast cancer during 2010.

• A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3 minutes, and every 13 minutes, the disease claims another life.

•  In the US, a woman has a 1 in 8 (12%) risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime.

•  All women are at risk for breast cancer. The two most significant risk factors are being female and getting older.

• 5.57% of women will develop breast cancer between their 50th and 70th birthdays.