This is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.
Cancer
What is the most common diagnosed cancer in American women, other than skin cancer?
Breast
What is the number one risk factor for breast cancer?
Genetic
Men can get breast cancer, True or False?
True
This type of cancer starts in the breast and can invade surrounding tissue and spread to other parts of the body.
Breast Cancer
1 in how many women living in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime?
8
This is the average age a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer.
62
These type of risk factors are avoidable and typically under an individual's control.
Environmental or lifestyle risk factors.
Doing this monthly is one of the best defenses against receiving a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis.
Self-breast exams
Lump, growth or tumor
On average, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every ____ minutes in the United States.
Women of this race are more likely to die from breast cancer and have the lowest 5-year survival rate.
Black women
Name at least two genetic risk factors.
This is done annually once you reach age 40 to help detect breast cancer.
Mammogram
Malignant
What is the 5-year survival rate percentage for cancer diagnosed at a localized stage?
99%
Women of this ethnicity have a lower incidence of breast cancer.
Name at least two environmental and lifestyle risk factors.
Lack of physical activity, poor diet, being overweight or obese, drinking alcohol, smoking
This percentage of people diagnosed with breast cancer have not connection to any risk factors.
60 - 70%
What is the name for the process that causes cancer cells to travel to other parts of the body damaging other tissues and organs?
Metastasis
An estimated how many U.S. women will die from breast cancer in 2023.
Between 43,000 and 44,000
This race of women have the lowest incidence rate of developing of breast cancer.
American Indian and Alaska Native
Name two myths that breast cancer is not caused by.
In 2023, an estimated how many new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the US.