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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women
accounting
for 30% of all cancers
in women.
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In 2009 over 22,700 women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer and
5,400 will
die of it.
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An estimated 180 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and
50 will
die of it.
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One in 9 women is expected to develop breast cancer during
her
lifetime.
One in 28 will die of it.
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On average, 437 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer
every week.
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On average, 104 Canadian women will die of breast cancer
every
week.
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Breast cancer death rates have declined in all ages combined
and in
every age
group since at least the mid 1990s.
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Incidence in death rates for breast cancer survivors has
declined since
1969 in women
aged 20-39.
