10 Breast Cancer Facts You Need To Know in 2019
Do you know what breast cancer is? Have you heard of it but don’t fully understand the disease? Is someone in your family, or one of your friends diagnosed with it? This blog post will cover the immediate facts of breast cancer symptoms in 2018, as well as an overview of the disease and what are the risk factors for breast cancer.
So let’s get to it…
What is Breast Cancer?
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) :
“Breast cancer is a disease in which cells in the breast grow out of control. There are different kinds of breast cancer. The kind of breast cancer depends on which cells in the breast turn into cancer.
Breast cancer can begin in different parts of the breast. A breast is made up of three main parts: lobules, ducts, and connective tissue. The lobules are the glands that produce milk. The ducts are tubes that carry milk to the nipple. The connective tissue (which consists of fibrous and fatty tissue) surrounds and holds everything together. Most breast cancers begin in the ducts or lobules.
Breast cancer can spread outside the breast through blood vessels and lymph vessels. When breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it is said to have metastasized.
The most common kinds of breast cancer are—
- Invasive ductal carcinoma. The cancer cells grow outside the ducts into other parts of the breast tissue. Invasive cancer cells can also spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body.
- Invasive lobular carcinoma. Cancer cells spread from the lobules to the breast tissues that are close by. These invasive cancer cells can also spread to other parts of the body.”
10 Breast Cancer Facts You Need to Know in 2019:
1. 1 in 8 women in America will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. (1)
12.4% of women in the United States will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. This makes breast cancer the most common cancer among women, besides skin cancer.
2. In 2018, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 63,960 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. (1)
There were about 2,550 new cases of breast cancer in men in 2018.
3. For women in the U.S., breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer. (1)
4. Most women (about eight out of 10) who get breast cancer do not have a family history of the disease. (1)
5. Over 3.3 million breast cancer survivors are alive in the United States today. (1)
6. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, besides skin cancer. (1)
7. On average, every 2 minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and 1 woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes. (1)
8. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000. (2)
9. Every 19 seconds, someone in the world will be diagnosed with breast cancer. (3)
10. The most significant risk factors for breast cancer are gender (being a woman) and age (growing older). (4)