Breast Cancer Walk Albany Ny
The American Cancer Society reports a 5-year survival rate of 98% to 100% for Stage 1 breast cancer after treatment.
Stage 1 breast cancer is less than 2 centimeters in diameter and has not spread beyond the breast tissue itself.
Currently, 63% of breast cancer for U. S. white women is detected and diagnosed while it is still localized to the breast tissue as Stage 1 breast cancer. Only 53% of breast cancer in U. S. black women is diagnosed while the breast cancer is still localized.
The difference in early detection rates between white women and black women is usually attributed to economic disparity and the lack of health insurance. It also helps explain the fact that in the U. S., breast cancer incidence for black women is 11% lower than for white women, but the breast cancer death rate for black women is 35% higher (NCI, SEER, 2007). The death rate increases when breast cancer detection and diagnosis are postponed while the cancer spreads.
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
Why did breast cancer death rate decline after 1986 but prostate cancer death rate declined after 1994?
Did they work harder so more women would survive breast cancer?? Didn’t they work hard at all to decrease the prostate cancer death rate??-
ANSWER:
The reason that the death rate initially rose for prostate cancer, after 1986, was that that was when PSA testing was introduced and became widely available (1986-1988). That led to a higher incidence of the disease (it was found more). So there were more death certificates with prostate cancer as the cause, because the doctors easily knew the deceased had it. In some cases, the man didn’t even die from prostate cancer, but since he had been screened and diagnosed, that went down as cause of death. Or, as the National Cancer Institute puts it: “Cause-of-death misclassification has also been studied as a possible explanation for changes in prostate cancer mortality. A relatively fixed rate was found at which individuals who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer are mislabeled as dying from prostate cancer. As such, the substantial increase in prostate cancer diagnoses in the late 1980s and early 1990s would then explain the increased rate of prostate cancer death during those years. As the rate of prostate cancer diagnosis fell in the early 1990s, this reduced rate of mislabeling death due to prostate cancer would fall, as would the overall rate of prostate cancer death” http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/prostate/HealthProfessional/allpagesYou are mistaken if you think that statistics have improved for breast cancer patients more than prostate cancer patients. According to the American Cancer Society:
For men diagnosed 1975-77, the 5 year survival rate for prostate cancer was 69%. 10 years later, it was 76%, and by the 1996-2004 time period it was 99%. There were increases and decreases in the survival rate during those years, but the survival rate has been increasing steadily since 2001.
For breast cancer, in 1975-77, the 5 year survival rate was a little better than for prostate: 75%. Ten years later, it had improved only a bit, to 79%. And by the 1996-2004 time period, it fell significantly behind that of prostate cancer, at 89%.
So over about 30 years, we prostate cancer patients went from a 69% survival rate to 99%, while women went from 75% to 89%.
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QUESTION:
Why Is The Breast Cancer Death Rate So Much Higher In Europe And Canada?
Isn’t Obama’s plan socialist govt run like what they got? Why do most doctors like 80% of them in America hate the Obama bill?-
ANSWER:
Quote a statistic from a reliable source. Or is that asking to much?
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QUESTION:
Which state has the highest reported breast cancer death rate?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View asserted it was Utah, but I can’t find that anywhere. I’m wondering if that’s because she is looking at more recent data or something, since most of what I find is from 2005. She thinks this is due to Utah insurance companies not paying for mammograms for women under 50.-
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I wouldn’t normally do this, but I can’t stand Elisabeth Hasselbeck and she is often wrong. The state with the highest mortality rate for breast cancer is Alaska at 27.4 deaths per 100,000. Utah ranks number 10 at 25.2 deaths per 100,000. The lowest is Hawaii at 18.9 per 100,000. Interestingly, the rate of death due to breast cancer is falling in every state in the union. This information includes deaths through 2006 and was just updated on 10/29/09. Elisabeth Hasselbeck does not have access to better information. I report cancer for a living and without cancer registrars this information would not be available. The National Cancer Institute is the agency responsible for this information and it is the agency each state reports to. I have included the link where I ran the report, but I’m not sure if it will work.http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/deathrates/deathrates.pl?00&055&00&2&001&1&1&1
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QUESTION:
Breast cancer death rate?
whats the breast cancer death rate-
ANSWER:
5year survival: stage1=100%,stage 2a=92%,2B=81%
3A=67%,3B=54%,4=20% This is based on averages and is dependent on an individuals genetics etc.
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QUESTION:
In USA, what is the death rate for breast cancer and prostate cancer?-
ANSWER:
Beast is 213,360. Prostate is 234,460.
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