Men can develop
breast cancer too,
but this disease is
about 100 times
more common
among women
than in men.
If you are a woman
age 40 or over, you should
get a mammogram
every year.
Call
715-623-9273
to
schedule an appointment.
Breast cancer survivor Arletta Puls, of Lily, received
treatment at the Volm Cancer Center of Antigo.
The year the rst modern
mammogramwas delivered.
BREAST CANCER
Numbers
to know
EVERY
two minutes a woman in the United States finds out she has breast cancer.
And every 13 minutes a woman will die from the disease, according to the American
Cancer Society. Many of these lives could be saved if women were to have regular
mammograms, or breast x-rays.
The goal of these screening exams is to find cancer before it starts to cause symptoms.
Breast cancers found during screening exams are more likely to be smaller and easier to treat.
The approximate
number of breast
cancer survivors living in the U.S.
The estimated number of people diagnosed
with invasive breast cancer in 2014.
About 1 out of every 8 women born
today will be diagnosedwith breast
cancer at some time during her life.
Mammograms
aren’t
time-intensive. The
whole procedure takes
about 20 minutes. The actual
breast compression lasts only a
few seconds.
Of every 1,000 mammograms, only
2 to 4 lead to a diagnosis of cancer.
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