Did you know that nine out of every 10 women who get breast cancer DON’T have a family history of the disease? I didn’t.
In fact, since reading up on breast cancer this month, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month there have been quite a few things I’ve learned about this terrible disease.
Here are just a few of them.
11 things I didn’t know about breast cancer
- Nine out of ten women who get breast cancer don’t have a family history of this disease.
- On average, seven women die from breast cancer every day in Australia. Finding breast cancer early increases the chance of surviving the disease.
- In 2009, the risk of developing breast cancer before the age of 85 in women was 1 in 8.1.
- For 2008, Australia’s mortality rate for breast cancer in women, was estimated to be lower than the rates for Southern Africa, New Zealand, Western
