Metastatic Female Breast Cancer Incidence

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
• Description:
  From 2001 to 2021, a total of 4,652,885 new cases of female breast cancer were reported in the United States. Of these, 260,379 (5.6%) were distant stage (metastatic) at diagnosis. The incidence of metastatic female breast cancer increased from 2001 (5.8 per 100,000 females) to 2021 (7.9 per 100,000).
  
  Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the United States (non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common). It is the second leading cause of cancer death among women, after lung cancer.
  
  Distant metastatic breast cancer—or cancer that has spread from the breast to distant parts of the body—has the lowest cancer survival rate. For this analysis, all cases collected are primary tumors and therefore do not reflect recurrent cancer diagnoses or tumors that progressed from local or regional stages to metastatic stage.
  
  The overall incidence of female breast cancer (at any stage) increased an average of 0.5% per year from 2001 to 2021. Trends for incidence increased the most for cases diagnosed at metastatic stage (1.6%) than at other stages. The incidence rate of metastatic female breast cancer was 5.8 per 100,000 in 2001 and increased to 7.9 per 100,000 in 2021 (Figure 1).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Breast Neoplasms Incidence Neoplasms
• Series:
  United States Cancer Statistics   ; U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Brief  
• DOI:
  https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/174571
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Division:
  Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
• Topic:
  Cancer statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• Volume:
  41
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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