About Breast Cancer

  • Every day 32 women are told they have breast cancer.
  • One in 11 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 75.
  • Over 11,500 women and just under 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. 
  • By 2011 it is estimated that 14,818 women and 122 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
  • That's 40 women each day.
  • 9 out of 10 lumps aren't cancer.
  • If you find a lump or notice a change in your breasts, see your doctor.
  • There is currently no means of preventing breast cancer. Current efforts are focused on finding it early.
  • The risk of breast cancer increases with age. Over 75% of breast cancer develops in women 50 years and older.
  • Young women can get breast cancer too. About 700 women under the age of 40 are diagnosed each year.
  • The majority of women survive breast cancer. 85% of women aged between 40 and 69 at diagnosis are alive five years later.
  • Each year 2,700 people die from breast cancer.
  • Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in women.

The ultimate goal of the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s is to raise enough money to fund a cure for breast cancer.

As Australia’s leading national not-for profit organisation established to fund all forms of research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer, we have a responsibility to ensure that the funds you work so hard to raise are used in the best possible way as we move towards making our goal a reality.

The NBCF is unique in its research funding as it is the only community organisation that awards funds specifically for research across the continuum of breast cancer from genetics to treatment, to support and palliative care. Funds raised are directed to the best research in Australia – we are neither limited by state boundaries nor institutional policies. We have no vested interest other than ensuring we progress knowledge about breast cancer.

As a nation, we have all the ingredients to successfully push onwards towards the prevention, and eventual cure for breast cancer but the most important part of the recipe is you.

Click here to learn more about the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Did you know that Men get breast cancer too?

Want more information about Men with Breast Cancer? Click Here!

 

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