Lee's National Denim Day

As I mentioned on Wednesday, today is Lee's National Denim Day to help raise money for Breast Cancer. Here are some facts that I found on Breast Cancer for Lee's website:

• Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
  
  
• One of every eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime; 1 in 33 will die from it.
  
  
• An estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the US each year; about 1,990 new cases are expected in men.
  
  
• An estimated 40,480 women will die from breast cancer each year. An estimated 450 men will die from breast cancer.
  
  
• More than 2 million women in the U.S. are living as breast cancer survivors.
  
  
• In 2007, 23,790 women under the age of 45 were diagnosed (16,150 with invasive, 7,640 with in situ).
  
  
• African Americans have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.
  
  
• Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are due to heredity. The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significant family history or other known risk factors.