Health Happening
The "No-Brainers" for Physical and Mental Health:
(2) ELIMINATE
Breast Cancer
Globally - Breast cancer is the second most common cancer killer of women - only lung cancer is more deadly. Currently annually diagnosed in well over a million people globally, and killing about 500,000 people.
In the U.S. - according to the National Breast cancer Foundation - there are 200,000 newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer each year, and 40,000 women each year are dying of this prolific disease. There has been a disturbing increase in the breast cancer rates over the past 50 years.
• 1 out of 8 women who live to age 85 will develop breast cancer.
• Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women age 40 to 55.
• 15% of all breast cancers occur in women under age 45 - having more aggressive cancers with lower recovery rates.
• 80% of breast lumps are NON-cancerous.
• 70% of breast cancers are found through breast self-exams.
• 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of breast cancer.
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U.S. Female Breast Cancer Rates by region (rates per 100,000 people) The incidence rate for the United States is 121.9 - Incidence rates are highest in the Northeast U.S. Census region (129.6), followed by the West (123.0), Midwest (120.2), and South (118.1). The death rate for the United States is 22.5 - Death rates are highest in the Midwest U.S. Census region (23.5), followed by the Northeast (22.7), South (22.6), and West (21.0). http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/women.htm last updated May 2012 |
Men are not immune - although their odds of having breast cancer are about 100 times better than women;~1,700 men will develop breast cancer and 450 will die from it each year.
- Men who work around gasoline and combustion products have a significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer.
American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2000;37:349-352
