Women have a 12.9% — or about 1 in 8 — chance of contracting breast cancer during their lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute. While breast cancer risk increases with age, a 2024 ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year in the United States, an estimated 240,000 women get breast cancer and 42,000 women die from the disease. Mammograms are ...