Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women next to skin cancers. Men are also susceptible to breast cancer.
It is estimated that in 2008, 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 67,770 new cases of non-invasive carcinoma in-situ (CIS, the earliest form of breast cancer) will be diagnosed in the United States.
There are currently about 2.5 million breast-cancer survivors in this country.