Steps to a HealthierUS - PREVENTION Report

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Breast Cancer: The Most Common Malignancy in Women
Breast cancer is the most common major cancer that occurs among American women and, after lung cancer, the second greatest cause of female cancer deaths. About 215,000 new breast cancer cases are diagnosed yearly in women (and 1,400 in men). More than 40,000 women and 400 men are expected to die from breast cancer in 2004.

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Women without adequate health insurance, or any health insurance at all, are most likely to die from breast cancer. Therefore, the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) helps make available mammograms (as well as Pap tests for cervical cancer) that can save lives.

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Prevention Report is a service of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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