CHICAGO (WLS) -- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women here in the U.S., second only to skin cancers.

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For 2025, the American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 317,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed; about 42,170 women will die.

Overall, there is a one in eight chance that a woman will develop breast cancer.

The American Cancer Society reports that breast cancer death rates have decreased 43% since 1989.

Dr. Nan Chen, a hematologist and oncologist at UChicago Medicine, is a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society.

She explained that there are several reasons why death rates have fallen.

"The earlier we find a breast cancer, the more likely a patient is to survive, the more likely that w

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