Fight like a girl, Fight for a Cure.

Last night I received the horrible news that my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. Being breast cancer awareness month I felt that this graphic was only appropriate to make.

About 1 in 8 women in the United States (12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.

Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among U.S. women. More than 1 in 4 cancers in women (about 28%) are breast cancer.

A woman’s risk of breast cancer approximately doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. About 20-30% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a family history of breast cancer.

http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics.jsp