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Stats and Facts

(Courtesy of The Young Survival Coalition, www.youngsurvival.org)

1. One in every 258 women between the ages of 30 and 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer within the next ten years.
2. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in young women ages 35-40.
3. Approximately 10,000 women under the age of 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year and close to 1,500 will die.
4. There are nearly 250,000 women in the United States under the age of 40 currently living with breast cancer.
5. Young women's cancers are generally more aggressive and lead to lower survival rates.
6. When breast cancer is caught in its earliest stages, the 5-year survival rate for young women with breast cancer is 85%.
7. Young women with breast cancer struggle with many issues that their post-menopausal counterparts don't, including: early menopause, pregnancy after diagnosis, higher mortality rates and a more advanced cancer at diagnosis.
8. Young women are virtually excluded from breast cancer studies and trials. Most studies are conducted on women over the age of 45. Few trials are devoted to pre-menopausal women, fewer still that include young women.