How many people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year?

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According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes. Taken directly from the ACS Web site:

About 178,480 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007. About 40,460 women will die from the disease this year. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

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