This post is published in conjunction with the Breast Cancer Awareness month. Please note that information presented in this article was extracted and adapted from various sources in the Internet, and that you are advised to consult your doctor for more information.

Did you know that:

• each year over 200,000 thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States and over 40,000 women die from this disease every year?
• an estimated 470 males die from breast cancer every year?
• one in every eight women in the United States develops breast cancer?
• the causes of breast cancer are not yet fully known although a number of risk factors have been identified?
• breast cancer can be diagnosed with self- and physician- examination of the breasts, mammography, ultrasound testing, and biopsy?
• there are many types of breast cancer that differ in their capability of spreading (metastasize) to other body tissues?
• treatment of breast cancer depends on the type and location of the breast cancer, as well as the age and health of the patient?
• The American Cancer Society recommends that a woman should have a baseline mammogram between the ages of 35 and 40 years? Between 40 and 50 years of age, mammograms are recommended every other year. After age 50 years, yearly mammograms are recommended.

More on the Breast Cancer Awareness series:

• Breast cancer?! What?!
• Breast cancer-related statistics
• Breast cancer: Examine yourself
• Risk factors for breast cancer
• Breast cancer symptoms
• Breast cancer treatments
• Breast cancer news