• A woman in the U.S. today has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer over her lifetime and a 1 in 39 chance of dying from breast cancer.
• Nearly 30% of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer later develop metastatic breast cancer.
• U.S. men make up 1 of every 100 breast cancer diagnoses in the country.
• There are about 4 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S., including women receiving breast cancer treatment.
• While the percentage of women dying from breast cancer has gone down in recent decades, Black women remain more likely to die from breast cancer than women of any other racial or ethnic group.
• In contrast to rising incidence, the death rate for breast cancer among women in the United States has dropped 44% from its peak in 1989 to 2022. That translates to nearly 518,000 fewer breast cancer deaths during this time compared to the number that would have occurred if the peak rate had continued.
• The continuous decline in breast cancer death rates is attributed to advances in treatment and early detection.
Source: American Cancer Society
