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In the U.S., one woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes, and one woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women of all ages. The most proven and significant risk factors are being female and getting older.
Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are due to heredity. The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significant family history or other known risk factors.
In the U.S. today, there are 2.3 million breast cancer survivors, the largest group of cancer survivors in the nation.
