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Breast Cancer Facts
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Women's Health Facts
Breast Cancer Facts
100
Average age women are diagnosed with breast cancer.
What is age 45?
100
Most common warning sign of breast cancer.
What is a painless lump or thickening in the breast or chest area?
100
Number of treatment options for breast cancer?
What are five treatments?
100
The best option to keep the skin healthy?
What is less sun exposure?
100
The ethnicity that has the highest breast cancer incidence rate.
What is Caucasian?
200
Two types of tumors that exist.
What is benign and malignant?
200
One step in the diagnosis of breast cancer.
What is self-examination, medical history, clinical breast exam, mammogram, or biopsy?
200
Three of the five treatment options for breast cancer.
What is radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted drugs, and surgery?
200
Two ethnicities (women) that are more likely to die due to asthma.
What is Caucasian and African Americans?
200
The state with the highest incidence of breast cancer.
What is Connecticut?
300
Three factors that affect your risk of breast cancer?
What is age, family history, alcohol, age of menopause, obesity, race, ethnicity?
300
The average age that women should start having clinical breast exams.
What is age 20?
300
Removal of the entire breast in surgery.
What is a mastectomy?
300
Three ways women can decrease stress.
What is eating a balanced diet, exercising, scheduling time for herself, getting more sleep, and balancing priorities?
300
The likelihood women are to develop breast cancer if they have an immediate blood relative with the disease.
What is twice as likely?
400
The rate that women will develop breast cancer in their life.
What is 1 in 18 women?
400
The number of diagnostic stages of breast cancer.
What are 5 stages?
400
A treatment that is genuinely used in combination with other treatments.
What is chemotherapy?
400
Average number of women living in the U.S. with a disability.
What is 27 million?
400
The number of women that are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
What is 190,000 women?
500
Where 50-75% of breast cancers begin.
What is milk ducts?
500
Likelihood of women being diagnosed with breast cancer over men.
What is 100 times more likely?
500
Factors to determine treatment options.
What is the size of the tumor, the number of lymph nodes that contain cancer, the stage of breast cancer, and the specific features of the tumor?
500
The percentage of women/girls around the world who have been physically or sexually abused by a male partner in their life.
What is 15-71%?
500
The annual death rate of breast cancer.
What is 40,290 people?