Breast Cancer Data and Risk Factors
- 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women per year in the U.S.
- 84,010 new cases of Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ per year in the U.S.
- 1970 men with breast cancer diagnosed each year.
- 8,900 new cases per year in Illinois
- 39,840 deaths per year in U.S.. 390 men will die from breast cancer.
- 2,000 deaths per year in Illinois
- 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in their lifetime
- 1 in 35 women will die from their breast cancer diagnosis
- From 1998 to 2007, the female breast death rate decreased by 2%
- Only 25% of all breast cancer patients have an identifiable risk factor.
- 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.
Illinois Cancer Registry Data
Distribution of Breast Cancer Staging at Diagnosis by County
Based on Data from 2004 through 2008
County |
Stage 0 |
Stage 1 |
Stage 2 and 3 |
Stage 4 |
Not Staged |
Cass |
18.6% |
49.1% |
22.3% |
5.1% |
5.1% |
Christian |
20.7% |
48.4% |
25.0% |
4.8% |
1.1% |
Logan |
22.7% |
48.4% |
25.8% |
2.3% |
0.8% |
Macon |
20.6% |
49.6% |
24.5% |
4.2% |
1.1% |
Macoupin |
16.9% |
52.1% |
24.1% |
4.4% |
1.9% |
Mason |
18.0% |
53.9% |
22.5% |
3.4% |
2.3% |
Menard |
28.0% |
41.3% |
25.3% |
4.0% |
1.3% |
Montgomery |
21.2% |
48.3% |
20.5% |
6.6% |
3.3% |
Morgan |
15.9% |
52.9% |
22.9% |
7.7% |
0.6% |
Sangamon |
24.2% |
49.0% |
21.5% |
4.4% |
1.0% |
Risk factors include:
- Being female
- Getting older
- Previous personal history of breast cancer or positive test for BRCA gene mutation
- Family history of a 1st degree relative, or a male with breast cancer
- A family member who tested positive for BRCA gene mutation
- Personal history of atypical ductal hyperplasia and/or atypical lobular hyperplasia
- Early menarchy
- Late menopause
- Children not being born until after age 30
Decreasing your risk:
- Get a CBE yearly beginning at age 20, and a mammogram yearly after age 40, sooner if there is a family history of breast cancer.
- Healthy diet - lots of green leafy vegetables, avoid fried or fatty foods.
- Avoid alcohol intake of more than 2 glasses per day.
- Flaxseed
- Excercise - (breast cancer risk has been shown to decrease by 40% in women who excercised 3 times weekly from teens into adulthood.)
- Tamoxifen - decreased risk by 50%
- Prophylactic Mastectomy - decreased risk by 99.5%
On-line mammogram information available
Doctors at the medical school at the University of California at San Francisco have set up a Web page that provides information for women on mammograms.
Called Potential Benefits and Risks of Mammograms, the site walks the reader through the decision-making process with 17 questions and answers. For example, one question points to a mammogram's ability to find an abnormality in the milk ducts of the breast, called carcinoma in situ. One issue for a woman who has this diagnosis is that not all of these abnormalities will develop into cancer if left untreated, according to information on the Web page.
The Web page contains questions that women with this diagnosis can ask their doctors to decide what is the correct action - or inaction - for them. The Web page address is http://www.ucfs.edu. Then scroll down the home page to the “Breast Cancer” category to find “Potential Benefits and Risks of Mammograms”
Source: Health Facts
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