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Fight Back Resources yOuR dONATIONS hARd AT WORk The generosity of donors to the American Cancer Society is truly awe-inspiring. A few facts and figures about the fight against breast cancer: » » In 2012, nearly 89,000 breast cancer patients and their caregivers and families received guidance in navigating the health care system. Corporate partners also play a major role in fighting breast cancer. Since 1996, Lee Jeans has raised more than $89 million through its Lee National denim day program, helping thousands, while in 2012, Walgreens, through its Way to Well Commitment program, helped nearly 40,000 women receive mammograms. Early detection remains critical in the fight against breast cancer. In 2010, two in three u.S. women (67%) 40 and older reported having a mammogram within the past two years. The mammography screening rate peaked in 2000, declined slightly, and has been stable since 2005. Those are just some of the key findings by the American Cancer Society included in a clinical journal and its consumer version, Breast Cancer Facts & Figures, 2013-2014. The reports, published every two years, provide detailed analyses of breast cancer incidence, mortality and survival trends, plus information on detection, treatment and factors that influence risk and survival. "Continued progress in the control of breast cancer," say Society researchers, "will require sustained and increased efforts to provide high-quality screening, diagnosis and treatment to all segments of the population." 34 % Decrease in breast cancer death rates, 1990-2010 89 % Relative survival rate for women with breast cancer five years after diagnosis 2.9million+ U.S. women with a history of breast cancer who were alive as of January 1, 2012 To view and print a copy of Breast Cancer Facts & Figures, 2013-2014, visit cancer.org/statistics. 20 Triumph fall-winter 2013 Photos: (This page, clockwise from left) Bert Vanderveen, courtesy of the American Cancer Society, Illustration: Lymari Acevedo (Opposite page) courtesy of the American Cancer Society, Getty Images » how would Tamoxifen and herceptin ever have become effective cancer-fighting drugs without the scientific research that led to their discovery? And how would that research ever have been funded without the support of the American Cancer Society? The Society currently has $86 million invested in breast cancer research grants. Breast cancer By the numBers  http://www.cancer.org/statistics

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