If you are impressed by numbers, consider the average risk of breast cancer in American women, by age 80, is roughly 12.15 percent, [SEER data base] with rates of death from breast cancer much lower still (less than two percent of us will die of breast cancer) as compared to the huge majority who suffer and will die from heart disease, with death rates approaching 50 percent in the first year after a heart attack. About 267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer. Take a look at the information on the Women's Heart Foundation website. Tuesday, February 8, 2011
For Women, Heart Attacks Kill 6 Times as Many as Breast Cancer (Huffington Post)
If you are impressed by numbers, consider the average risk of breast cancer in American women, by age 80, is roughly 12.15 percent, [SEER data base] with rates of death from breast cancer much lower still (less than two percent of us will die of breast cancer) as compared to the huge majority who suffer and will die from heart disease, with death rates approaching 50 percent in the first year after a heart attack. About 267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer. Take a look at the information on the Women's Heart Foundation website. 
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