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Breast Health

What you need to know about breast cancer
and its prevention:

• In 2005, 211,240 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer
  for the first time. About 40,410 women will die from breast
  cancer this year.
   
• One in seven women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime
   and her chance of dying from breast cancer is one in thirty-three.
   
• Breast cancer death rates are going down, probably because of early
  detection and improved treatment.

• Almost 97% of women who have their breast cancer found at an
  early stage live more than 5 years.

• Your risk for getting breast cancer.

• The most common signs of breast cancer.

• How you can do a breast self-exam.

• The guidelines for your breast cancer screening.

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Source:  American Cancer Society (2005)