How many women get breast cancer?

Question

i tried looking up statistics, but couldnt find anything or any charts from recent years. but how many women get breast cancer? for example 1 in every 5.(thats probably not true, but you know what i mean)....and how easy is it to get breast cancer? or just any other stats you have about breast cancer...

thanks!

Answer 1

I googled this question:

This is an excerpt from the below link.

About 182,460 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2008. About 40,480 women will die from the disease this year. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

Answer 2

over a womens whole life, the ratio is 1 in 8