Breast Cancer by the Numbers

5 – The number of stages of breast cancer, with 0 being the least progressed and IV being the most severe5

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b y t h e n u m b e r s

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

51st – Idaho’s ranking out of 50 states and

the District of Columbia in cancer screening

90 percent – the five-year survival rate for all women diagnosed with breast cancer

90 percent

2,140 – the number of cases of breast cancer

expected to occur

among men in 2011

30 minutes – Theamount of time theAmerican Cancer Society suggests a person should engage in moderate to vigorous exercise as a cancer prevention mechanism

2 – the number of alcoholic drinks per

day that could increase

your risk of breast cancer by 21 percent

Sources: healthandwelfare.idaho.gov, cancer.org, komen.org

230,480 – the number of new cases of invasive breast cancer that will be diagnosed in 2011

230,480

1 in 69 – the chances of a woman age 40 will develop breast cancer

one in sixty nine

5-10%5-10 percent – the

percentage of breast cancers that are caused by inherited gene mutations

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