Who gets breast cancer?

Anyone can get breast cancer. For example, did you know: • The older a woman, the more likely she is to get breast cancer? • Young women can get breast cancer, even in their 20s? • White women are more likely to get breast cancer than women of any other racial or ethnic group?

Anyone can get breast cancer. For example, did you know:

• The older a woman, the more likely she is to get breast cancer?

• Young women can get breast cancer, even in their 20s?

• White women are more likely to get breast cancer than women of any other racial or ethnic group?

• African American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women?

• Men can get breast cancer? Out of every one hundred  cases of breast cancer, one will occur in a man.