Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual campaign held each October to raise awareness of this complex disease. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time when many individuals, businesses, and communities come together to show their support for those impacted by the disease. It can be a time to reflect, celebrate, and give back.

However, for many people, it is also a difficult reminder of their personal experience with breast cancer and the many lives we have lost.

This year, more than 44,000 American lives and more than 685,000 lives globally will be lost to metastatic breast cancer.

About 1 in 8 U.S. women and 1 in 833 U.S. men will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lives.

In 2021, an estimated 284,200 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S., along with 49,290 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer*.

*American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts and Figures, 2021