Breast Cancer Support & Awareness

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer).

An estimated 23,200 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,300 will die of it.
An estimated 180 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 50 will die of it.
On average, 445 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer every week.
On average, 100 Canadian women will die of breast cancer every week.
One in 9 women is expected to develop breast cancer during her lifetime and one in 28 will die of it.
Breast cancer incidence rose steadily from 1980 to the early 1900s, partly because of increased mammography screening. Breast cancer deaths rates have declined in every age group since at least the mid 1980s.

Source: The Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca