breast cancer awareness, patients education about breast cancer.

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3. Why breast cancer awareness?
Awareness surrounding
breast cancer is incredibly
important as early
detection, often through
screening, can catch the
disease when it is most
treatable. According to
ACS, breast cancer is the
most common cancer in
women, except for skin
cancers.

4. • In 2020, there were 2.3 million women
diagnosed with breast cancer and 685 000
deaths globally. As of the end of 2020,
there were 7.8 million women alive who
were diagnosed with breast cancer in the
past 5 years, making it the world’s most
prevalent cancer.
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6. • Approximately 13% of women (1 in 8) will
be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer,
and 3% (1 in 39) will die from the disease
in their lifetime
• As of January 1, 2022, there were
approximately 4.1 million women with a
history of breast cancer living in the United
States. Approximately 4% of these women
are living with metastatic disease, more
than half of whom were originally

7. Cancer Occurrence in The Most Recent Time Period
Incidence and mortality rates
Female breast cancer incidence and
mortality rates for five broad racial an
ethnic groups are shown in Figure 1.
Breast cancer incidence rates are
highest in White women (133.7 per
100,000), followed closely by Black
women (127.8 per 100,000), and are
lowest in Hispanic and API women.
Importantly, these aggregated rates fo
the broad racial and ethnic groups
mask possible heterogeneity within
subpopulations. For instance, breast
cancer incidence rates of Native
Hawaiian women are similar to those
of White women.26, 27 Of the broadly
defined racial and ethnic groups, Blac
women have the highest breast cance
death rate (27.6 per 100,000), which
40% higher than the rate in White
women (19.7 per 100,000) and more
than double that in API women (11.7
per 100,000).

8. • Mortality
The overall breast
cancer death rate
increased by
0.4% per year
from 1975 to
1989 but has
since declined by
43% through
2020. Declines in
breast cancer
mortality have
been attributed to
better and more
targeted
treatment and
early detection

9. • Breast cancer
survival varies
substantially by
stage at diagnosis.
The 5-year relative
survival for patients
diagnosed during
2012–2018 was
>99% for stage I
disease, 93% for
stage II, 75% for
stage III, and 29%
for stage IV. Except
for stage I, for
which survival is
similar, Black
women have the

16. ● New lump thickening
or swellingin the
breast or underarm.
● Thickening, irritation
or dimpling of breast
skin.
● Redness or flaky skin
in the nipple area or
the breast.
● Pulling in of the
nipple or pain in the
nipple area.
● Nipple discharge
other than breast
milk, including blood.
● Any change in the
size or the shape of
the breast.
● Pain in any area of
the breast.

23. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It
is the perfect time to learn more about this
disease that devastates the lives of so many
people. Take this month as an opportunity to
spread breast cancer awareness to encourage
more people who are fighting the disease.