| Seer Stats fact sheet estimates that 192,370 women | | | | greatest drop was between 1995 and 1998 when |
| will be diagnosed with breast cancer during 2009 and | | | | fears between HRT and breast cancer made a large |
| of those 40,170 women will die of cancer in the | | | | number of women about the wisdom of HRT. |
| same year. The median age for women being | | | | 89.1% reached the magical 5-year relative survival |
| diagnosed was 61 years of age, and none were | | | | rate between 1999-2005, which means that 10.9% |
| under the age of twenty; 1.9% were aged 20 and | | | | did not make the five year breast cancer survival |
| 34; 10.5% were diagnosed between 35 and 44. From | | | | landmark. 90.3% of white women got to the five |
| the ago of forty five the incidence rose sharply | | | | year breast cancer survival stage and only 77.9% of |
| 22.5% were between 45 and 54; 23.7% were aged | | | | black women. However that is not necessarily an |
| between 55 and 64. After 65 and between 74 the | | | | indication of genetics or ethnicity but could reflect the |
| incidence dropped again to 19.6%, 16.2% were aged | | | | women who could afford the best treatment. |
| between 75 and 84; and finally 5.5% 85+ years of | | | | 60% of breast cancer cases are diagnosed while the |
| age. Just because their were only five and a half | | | | cancer is still confined to the primary site (localized |
| percent diagnosed at over 85 merely indicates that | | | | stage); a third or 33% are diagnosed after the |
| there were less women in that age group living. | | | | cancer has spread to regional lymph nodes or directly |
| The incidence was higher in white women as 123.8 | | | | beyond the primary site; 5% are diagnosed after the |
| per 100,000 women were diagnosed with breast | | | | cancer has already metastasized (distant stage) and |
| cancer, blacks were diagnosed at 117.7 per 100,000 | | | | for the remaining 2% the information was unknown. |
| women, the Polynesians less still as 89.5 per 100,000 | | | | The corresponding 5-year relative survival rates were: |
| women , Hispanics had 88.3 per 100,000 women And | | | | 98.3% for localized; 83.5% for regional; 23.3% for |
| native American Indian/Alaska Native had the least | | | | distant; and 57.7% for unstaged. |
| number affected. 74.4 per 100,000 women | | | | If one estimates the 2004 -2006 figures it means |
| From 2002-2006, the median age at death in America | | | | that 1 in eight women will be diagnosed as having |
| for cancer of the breast was 68 years of age, | | | | breast cancer at some point in their lives. On January |
| though 1.0% between 20 and 34; 6.2% between 35 | | | | 1, 2006, there were approximately 2,533,193 women |
| and 44; 15.1% between 45 and 54; 20.3% between | | | | alive who had a history of breast cancer. This figure |
| 55 and 64; 19.8% between 65 and 74; 22.8% | | | | comprises those that have active and those that |
| between 75 and 84; and 14.9% 85+ years of age. | | | | were in remission. |
| The age-adjusted death rate was 24.5 per 100,000 | | | | In conclusion one in eight get cancer and two thirds |
| women per year. These rates are based on patients | | | | of these are in the primary stages. Nearly ninety |
| who died in 2002-2006 in the US. | | | | percent will celebrate the five year boundary. In |
| In terms of trends the highest deaths occurred in the | | | | general these figures are less bleak than they would |
| eighties when the mortality rate increased overall by | | | | first appear and there are definite grounds for |
| four percent between 1980 and 1987, when the use | | | | optimism if you have been diagnosed with breast |
| of HRT in creased dramatically. Trend wise the | | | | cancer this year. |