Breast Cancer Support & Awareness

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian women.

In 2008, an estimated 22,400 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,300 will die of it.
An estimated 170 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 50 will die of it.
On average, 431 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer every week.
On average, 102 Canadian women will die of breast cancer every week.
One in 9 women is expected to develop breast cancer during her lifetime. One in 28 will die of it.
Breast cancer death rates have declined in all ages combined and in every age group since at least the mid 1990s.
Incidence and death rates for breast cancer have declined since 1969 in women aged 20-39.

Totals may not add, due to rounding. Last modified August 2008 – Canadian Cancer Society