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In 2024, approximately 42,250 women (Table 2) and 530 men are expected to die from breast cancer. Breast cancer incidence increased during the most recent decade of data (2012-2021) by 1% annually overall, with a steeper increase among women younger than 50 years (1.4% per year) than in those 50 or older (0.7% per year).
ATLANTA, October 1, 2024 — The American Cancer Society (ACS) today released Breast Cancer Statistics, 2024, the organization’s biennial update on breast cancer occurrence and trends in the United States. The new report finds breast cancer mortality rates overall have dropped by 44% since 1989, averting approximately 517,900 breast cancer ...
Female breast cancer incidence rates by subtype and race and ethnicity for ages (A) older than 20 years, (B) 20–49 years, and (C) older than 50 years, United States, 2017–2021. Rates are age adjusted to the 2000 US standard population and adjusted for reporting delays. Breast cancer subtype status was imputed for cases with missing information.
In the US in 2022, an estimated 287,850 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women and 43,250 women will die from the disease (Table 1). In addition, an estimated 51,400 cases of DCIS will be diagnosed among women.
This Facts & Figures report provides statistics about the occurrence of breast cancer as well as about its risk factors, prevention, early detection, and treatment. For a short summary, see the news story: Higher Breast Cancer Death Rates for Black Women Persist. Download the PDF.
Cancer incidence and mortality data. Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Laversanne M, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A, Bray F. Global cancer statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries.
In 2020, an estimated 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the U.S. as well as 48,530 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer. 64% of breast cancer cases are diagnosed at a localized stage, for which the 5-year survival is 99%.