Breast Cancer Awareness month, a campaign that aims to raise awareness about the disease, how to prevent it, and help fund research that leads to better ways to treat it.Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer in women after skin cancer, according to the National Institutes of Health.
There have been an estimated 281,550 new cases diagnosed in 2021, roughly 14.8% of all new cancer cases in the United States.Nearly 13% of women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point during their lifetime, statistics from the National Cancer Institute show.But breast cancer deaths rates have also been declining in the U.S.