• The National Cancer Institute estimates breast cancer will strike one out of eight women in her lifetime.
• Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. The disease can also occur in men.
• According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women and 1,690 among men in the U.S. this year.
