What is Breast Cancer?
Breast Cancer Incidence
Breast Cancer Statistics
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Bonus Info
100

This is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.

Cancer

100

What is the most common diagnosed cancer in American women, other than skin cancer?

Breast

100

What is the number one risk factor for breast cancer?

Increasing age
100
These type of risk factors are inherited or passed down from parent to child. 

Genetic

100

Men can get breast cancer, True or False?

True

200

This type of cancer starts in the breast and can invade surrounding tissue and spread to other parts of the body.

Breast Cancer

200

1 in how many women living in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime?

8

200

This is the average age a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer.

62

200

These type of risk factors are avoidable and typically under an individual's control.

Environmental or lifestyle risk factors.

200

Doing this monthly is one of the best defenses against receiving a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis.

Self-breast exams

300
What is a mass of tissue caused by abnormal cells called?

Lump, growth or tumor

300

On average, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every ____ minutes in the United States.

2
300

Women of this race are more likely to die from breast cancer and have the lowest 5-year survival rate.

Black women

300

Name at least two genetic risk factors.

Gender, age, race, family history, personal health history, dense breast tissue
300

This is done annually once you reach age 40 to help detect breast cancer.

Mammogram

400
Some lumps, growths and tumors are benign, meaning not cancerous. What is a cancerous lump, growth or tumor called?

Malignant

400

What is the 5-year survival rate percentage for cancer diagnosed at a localized stage?

99%

400

Women of this ethnicity have a lower incidence of breast cancer.

Hispanic
400

Name at least two environmental and lifestyle risk factors.

Lack of physical activity, poor diet, being overweight or obese, drinking alcohol, smoking

400

This percentage of people diagnosed with breast cancer have not connection to any risk factors.

60 - 70%

500

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

500

An estimated how many U.S. women will die from breast cancer in 2023.

Between 43,000 and 44,000

500

This race of women have the lowest incidence rate of developing of breast cancer.

American Indian and Alaska Native

500

Name two myths that breast cancer is not caused by.

Underwire bra, implants, deodorant, antiperspirants, mammograms, caffeine, plastic food serving items, microwaves, cell phones
500

In 2023, an estimated how many new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the US.

Between 297,000 and 298,000.
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