FREE STICKERS (6-PACK)! Donations are appreciated & will be used to send 2 Black Women/Men currently battling breast cancer on a spa day to Aire Ancient Baths. The Women/Men have been selected and currently wish to remain anonymous.

• Get into these key breast cancer statistics in the US:

  • Breast cancer alone accounts for 30% of newly diagnosed invasive cancers in women. Together, the 3 most common types of cancer in woman—breast, lung, and colorectal—account for 50% of all new cases in women.

  • About 281,550 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in 2021. Incidence rates have increased slightly—by about 0.5% a year on average—in the last decade. This may be due in part to increased obesity and women having fewer children or having their first child after age 30.

  • About 12% of women who are screened for breast cancer have an abnormal mammogram, but only 5% of these women have cancer.

  • About 43,600 women will die from the disease in 2021. For women, the death rate declined 41% between 1989 and 2018.

  • Not all women have benefited equally from this progress. Non-Hispanic Black women at every age are more likely to die from breast cancer. The higher breast cancer death rate in Black women in part reflects the higher number of diagnoses of triple negative breast cancer in Black women. Black women are twice as likely as women of other racial and ethnic groups in the US to be diagnosed with this harder-to-treat cancer.

  • Black women do not have the same access to high-quality cancer care compared to white women. They are more likely to be screened at lower resourced and nonaccredited facilities, to go longer between mammograms, and to wait longer for a follow-up exam after getting an abnormal result.

  • Breast cancer is not only a women’s disease. In 2021, 2,650 men will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and 530 men will die from it.

The American Cancer Society estimates for breast cancer in men in the United States for 2021 are:

• About 2,650 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed

• About 530 men will die from breast cancer

Breast cancer is about 100 times less common among white men than among white women.  It is about 70 times less common among Black men than Black women. As in Black women, Black men with breast cancer tend to have a worse prognosis (outlook). For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 833 .

Source- www.cancer.org

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**These stickers are not meant to discredit any other ethnicities/races battling with Breast Cancer. These stickers were created with the intent to bring awareness, educate, celebrate, honor, highlight, and uplift. Happy Breast Cancer Awareness month. PLEASE STICK THESE UP EVERYWHERE EYES CAN SEE IN YOUR CITY!