• The risk of developing breast cancer increases as you age approximately 95% of all breast cancers occur in woman 40 years of age or older.

•  Only 5-10% of breast cancers are due to heredity. The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significant family history or other known risk factors.

•  A women's chance of developing breast cancer increases with age. In the United States , a woman has about a 13% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

•  African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States .

•  The five-year survival rate for breast cancer, when caught early before it spreads beyond the breast, is now 98% (compared to 74% in 1982)

•  In the United States today, there are over 2.5 Million breast cancer survivors and the number of deaths due to breast cancer seems to be declining. A combination of earlier detection and more effective treatments is thought to be responsible for declining death rates.