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Originally Posted by The Adult Broker
What Every Person Show Know About Breast Cancer:
!One in every eight woman will develop breast cancer.
!Every three minutes a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer.
!There are over two million women living in the United States who have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.
!41,000 women – 110 each day – are expected to die from breast cancer during 2006.
!By the time cancer is diagnosed, it has already been present for six to ten years.
!The breast is the leading cancer site among American women.
Breast cancer is a ‘younger woman’s” disease: approximately 11,000 women under the age of 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and close to 1,300 will die.
!Younger women’s cancers are generally more aggressive and result in lower survival rates.
!One in eight women. Think about that statistic the next time you’re in a restaurant, at the office, or watching a movie filled with women.
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Sobering facts and a worthy cause. Great work.