Female Breast Cancer Health Center

According to the American Cancer Society, some 229,060 women and 2,190 men in the United States are expected to learn they have breast cancer this year.

Of all these people, 99 percent of them will be alive in five years (5-year survival rate) if the cancer has not moved outside the breast.

However, breast cancer will take the lives 39, 920 women and 410 men in this country this year.

Review Date: 
March 22, 2012
Last Updated:
July 1, 2013
Source:
dailyrx.com