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Breast Cancer Awareness

Washington Publishers supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Statistics

Estimated Breast Cancer Cases And Deaths Worldwide
Region	New Cases (2000)	Deaths (2000)
North America Eastern Africa Middle Africa Northern Africa Southern Africa Western Africa Caribbean Central America South America Eastern Asia South-Eastern Asia South Central Asia Western Asia Eastern Europe Northern Europe Southern Europe Western Europe Australia/New Zealand Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia	142,656 13,615 3,902 18,724 5,537 17,389 6,210 18,663 69,924 202,044 55,907 129,620 20,155 110,975 54,551 65,284 115,308 12,748 470 62 127	38,826 6,119 1,775 8,388 2,504 7,830 2,310 5,888 22,735 51,184 24,961 62,212 8,459 43,058 20,992 25,205 40,443 3,427 209 28 58

American Breast Cancer Statistics By State
State	Estimated New Cases of Breast Cancer (2001)	Estimated Breast Cancer Deaths (2001)
United States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming	192,200 2,900 200 3,200 1,900 18,800 2,100 2,500 600 600 12,500 5,000 600 800 9,100 4,400 2,300 1,700 2,900 3,300 1,000 4,000 4,600 6,800 3,200 2,000 3,800 600 1,200 1,200 800 6,700 1,100 14,200 5,500 500 8,900 2,500 2,400 10,300 800 2,800 500 4,200 12,300 1,000 400 4,600 3,600 1,500 3,600 300	40,200 600 100 700 400 3,900 400 500 100 100 2,600 1,000 100 200 1,900 900 500 400 600 700 200 800 1,000 1,400 700 400 800 100 200 200 200 1,400 200 3,000 1,100 100 1,900 500 500 2,200 200 600 100 900 2,600 200 100 1,000 800 300 700 100

A Woman’s Chances of Getting Breast Cancer
Ever By age 30 By age 40 By age 50 By age 60 By age 70 By age 80	1 out of 8 1 out of 2,212 1 out of 235 1 out of 54 1 out of 23 1 out of 14 1 out of 10

Five Year Survival Rate By Age
Younger than 45 Ages 45-64 Ages 65 and older	81% 85% 86%

Stage	5-year Relative Survival Rate
0	100%
I	98%
IIA	88%
IIB	76%
IIIA	56%
IIIB	49%
IV	16%

Percent of American Women Who Have Had a Mammogram Within Past 2 Years
All Women Over 40 White, Non-Hispanic Women Over 40 Black, Non-Hispanic Women Over 40 Hispanic Women Over 40 Women Over 40 Below Poverty Level Women Over 40 Above Poverty Level	66.9% 68% 66% 60.2% 50.5% 69.3%

Overall Survival Rate
After 5 years After 10 years After 15 years After 20 years	85% 71% 57% 52%

Source: imaginis.com

U.S. Postal Service Campaign to Help Fund Cancer Research with a Breast Cancer Stamp

The breast cancer awareness postal stamp was the nation's first fund-raising stamp, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Issued in 1999, the Postal Service made an announcement in 2002 that the cost of the stamp was being raised from 40-cents to 45-cents, and that the stamp would be on sale until at least December of 2003. The U.S.P.S. called it a "semipostal stamp," which meant that it was priced above the normal cost of First-Class postage with the net proceeds going to a good cause. Thirty percent of of the net proceeds went to the Medical Research program of the Department of Defense (for breast cancer research), and seventy percent went to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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