How many women suffer from this Breast Cancer ?
In USA are diagnosed each year and 15,000 new cases are currently handled figures indicating that one in Spanish will have a 16-18 for breast cancer. In the age group 45-55 years, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in our country, ahead of lung cancer. The cure rate in USA is around 60%. In the case of relapse, the estimate of survival was about two 2 years of life, which means that in reality there are women with short survival (less than one years) and in some cases this extends beyond the four years. Relapse in patients without lymph node involvement is 30%, while for those affected this percentage varies depending on the number of nodes involved. If you have more than 10 nodes, the relapse rate increases to 90%.Early detection, when the tumor has not extended or changed, making the cure rate is raised to almost 90%. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that are diagnosed each year some 190,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer in United States. Relative survival of five years for U.S. women with localized breast cancer is currently 97%. The mortality rates of breast cancer decreased significantly from 1992 to 1996, probably due to better diagnoses and improved treatments.
