Resources
The Ozark Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure has a promise: To save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all and energizing science to find the cures. Serving Benton, Washington, Madison, Carroll, Sebastian, Boone, Newton, and Crawford counties, volunteers help educate women, and men, about accessing breast cancer screening programs, doing self examination, and locating treatment services. If you would like to schedule a speaker for a program or volunteer to do education, please call the Affiliate office at 750-7465 (750-PINK). You may also call the education chairperson, Megan Murphy at (479) 750-6550.
Anatomy of Breast Cancer
Interested in understanding the biology behind breast cancer? This interactive program provides an audiovisual experience that will enable you to better understand the development of breast cancer, the risk factors of breast cancer, diagnosis and prognostic factors and treatment options. This one-of-a-kind resource is available in English and Spanish. To use this interactive tool go to www.komen.org the "About Breast Cancer" at the top of the page then click on "Anatomy of Breast Cancer".
National Statistics
- An estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2007. An estimated 40,460 women will die from breast cancer.
- An estimated 2,030 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2007 and 450 will die.
- Being female is the most important risk factor for breast cancer. Although men can develop this disease, it is about 100 times more common among women
- Studies of exercise and breast cancer have had consistent results, women who are physically active on a regular basis seem to have an approximately 20 percent lower risk (0.8 relative risk) of the disease compared to women who aren't active regularly
- At this time there are slightly more than two million women living in the United States who have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.
Important Facts
- Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths among women.
- The majority of all breast cancers occur in women with no known risk factors.
- All women are at risk; and one's risk increases with advancing age.
Education and Early Detection Increase Survival
- There is no known cure for advanced breast cancer.
- Detection of breast cancer at an early stage provides a greater chance for a cure and more treatment options.
- When the disease is confined to the breast, the 5-year survival rate is over 95%.
- More Caucasian women than African American women develop breast cancer. However, of women diagnosed with breast cancer, more African American women die from the disease.
Project 11
Project 11-Side by Side encourages awareness and education of breast cancer through breast self examination. KNWA-TV, nwahomepage.com, and Yoplait will send you a monthly e-mail reminder on the 11th of the month to remind you to perform your breast self-examination. Click on the link to find out more!