How many people are diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide?
In 2022, about 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide and 670,000 died. Every 14 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
How common is breast cancer?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women both in the developed and less developed world. In 2012, it represented about 12 percent of all new cancer cases and 25 percent of all cancers in women.
What is the most common cancer in women?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women overall. It is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women in 157 of 185 countries worldwide.
How has breast cancer progressed over the years?
Globally, breast cancer now represents one in four of all cancers in women. Since 2008, worldwide breast cancer incidence has increased by more than 20 percent. Mortality has increased by 14 percent.
Breast cancer statistics according to the World Cancer Research Fund International and the World Health Organization
What is the most common cancer for women in the U.S.?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women after nonmelanoma skin cancer.
How many breast cancer survivors are there in the U.S.?
There are more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, including women still being treated and those who have completed treatment.
How many people are diagnosed with breast cancer?
In 2025, an estimated 319,750 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S.
How many women are diagnosed with breast cancer?
In 2025, an estimated 316,950 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S., making it the most common cancer in American women. Every two minutes a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with the disease.
How many men are diagnosed with breast cancer?
In 2025, an estimated 2,800 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S.
What race is most affected by breast cancer?
From 2005 to 2014, the most recent 10 years for which data are available, invasive breast cancer incidence rates were stable in white women and increased slightly (by 0.3 percent per year) in black women.
How many people will die from breast cancer in 2023?
In the U.S. in 2025, an estimate 42,680 people (42,170 women and 510 men) will die from the disease.
What are the overall survival rates for breast cancer?
The five- and 10-year relative survival rates for women with invasive breast cancer are 91 percent and 84 percent, respectively.
What is the five-year survival rate for breast cancer?
The overall five-year relative survival rate is 99 percent for localized disease, 86 percent for regional disease, and 30 percent for distant-stage disease.
Has the breast cancer survival rate improved?
Since 1975, the breast cancer five-year relative survival rate has increased significantly for both black and white women. While a substantial gap remains, especially for late-stage diagnoses, the racial disparity seems to be narrowing. In the most recent period, the five-year relative survival rate was 83 percent for black women and 92 percent for white women.
Breast cancer statistics according to the American Cancer Society (Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2024-2025 and Cancer Facts & Figures 2025)
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