FACT:  Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women; every 3 minutes, another woman is diagnosed; every 11 minutes, another woman dies.

FACT:  Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for all women aged 35-54. 

FACT:  There is no certain cure for breast cancer. Despite growing use of mammography and overall advances in medical technology, the death rate has not changed over the last 20 years - approximately half of all breast cancer patients will die from their disease.

FACT:  We have no idea what causes breast cancer and every woman is at risk.

FACT:  75% of new cases are diagnosed in women with no family history of breast cancer.

FACT:  Although the disease is most common in women over 50, younger women, even those in their twenties, also are diagnosed with and die of breast cancer.

FACT:  In 1990, the dollar value of medical care for the nation's breast cancer patients was estimated at over $6 billion.  Federal funding for breast cancer research equals only 6.7% of that cost.

FACT:  Some recent studies have shown that a greater proportion of african-american women develop more agressive types of tumors than caucasian-american women accounting for an elevated mortality rate.