October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), one in eight women overall in the United States will have a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime in her life. There are currently more than four million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. This includes women still being treated and those who have completed treatment.

The ACS reports that while breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women in the United States after skin cancers, the chance that any woman will die from breast cancer is now about one in 40. Breast cancer death rates have been decreasing steadily since 1989, believed to be the result of finding breast cancer earlier through screening, increased awareness and better treatments, according to the ACS.

 

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