JUST THE FACTS
Most people don’t realize how prevalent
breast cancer is among women.
will be diagnosed this year alone.
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In 2022, about 2.3 MILLION women were diagnosed with breast cancer
world wide and it is estimated 670,000 died from their disease.
Most people don’t realize how prevalent breast cancer is among women. 1 in 8 US women every year will be diagnosed this year, and of those, 30+% will go on to metastasize and die from the disease (approximately 42,000, 1% of those will be men) metastatic breast cancer.
will go on to metastasize and die from the disease.
30+%
MBC is a disease takes the lives of
116
people every day!
Metastatic breast cancer is a disease that takes the lives of 116 people every day! This statistic has only seen an increase over the last 10 years as more and more people are being diagnosed each day. The age of diagnosis is getting younger and these young patients, along with black and brown patients of all ages, are developing more aggressive forms of the disease. Black women are dying at a 40% higher rate than their white counterparts.
Metastatic breast cancer continues to take the lives of those we love. While being the only fatal stage of the disease, metastatic breast cancer research receives the least amount of funding of all breast cancer research. Of the billions of dollars raised to support research on an annual basis, it is projected that only 2-11% of it will help to fund research that is desperately needed to save lives.
Of the billions of dollars raised, ONLY 2-11% will be used to help to fund life-saving research.
Prevention - Mechanics - Therapies
And when you consider that the 2-11% of funding is then divided into three areas of metastasis research, (1-Prevention of metastasis, 2-Mechanics of the disease, learning how it happens, and 3-Translational science, research that could actually lead to life saving or extending therapies) the pieces of the pie get even smaller. Stage IV deserves more.