Breast cancer by the numbers

• 1 in 8 American women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime
• 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed this year
• 64,640 cases of non-invasive (early stage) breast cancer will be diagnosed this year
• 39,620 women will die from breast cancer this year
• 2.9 million American women are breast cancer survivors

Source: American Cancer Society