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Interesting Statistics to Ponder

by Karen Lynch

Here’s an interesting statistic for you that has nothing to do with hormone replacement therapy:

“A woman born in the U.S. today still has a 12.7 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute.”

Here’s another one:

“And women now in their 60s are nearly three times more likely to get breast cancer than women in their 40s, the institute said.”

Both of these were in the article I just read — the National Cancer Institute is a credible information source.


Posted in General, Research/News on August 15th, 2007

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One Response to “Interesting Statistics to Ponder”

  1. Sherry Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 7:34 am

    These statistics are interesting…and sadly it is still too many women to be diagnosed.

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