Breast Cancer Statistics

These links will take you to discussions of breast cancer statistics.

Remember that statistics are figures that predict trends in groups - not your personal fortune teller. There are plenty of survivors who are happy to tell you how misleading statistics can be.

Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Statistics
A nice, simple pie chart from the Breast Cancer Roundtable showing US statistics.

Ask C/NET Cancer Data Query System
Requires a free registration and is not specific to breast cancer, but still a good resource.

Atlas of Cancer Mortality
The 254 maps in the atlas will make it easy for researchers and state health departments to identify places in the US where high or low rates occur.

Breast Cancer and Mammography Statistics
Well-constructed overview of incidences by country, ethnicity and age from the National Cancer Institute.

Breast Cancer Clusters: Clickable Map
The National Action Plan on Breast Cancer provides contacts and web sites for all fifty states. A good resource for researching cancer rates and other epidemiological data.

Breast cancer stats 'could be misleading'
Faulty record keeping can change the prognosis for breast cancer patients.

Breast Cancer Studies and Statistics
Here’s the motherlode (293 citations) of statistical studies from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.