There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballêt-dancers, there were musicians, there were cards, there was Beauty, there was wine. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The external world could take care of itself. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair from without or of frenzy from within. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince’s own eccentric yet august taste. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease were the incidents of half an hour.īut the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless, and sagacious. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest-ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleedings at the pores, with dissolution. Blood was its Avator and its seal - the redness and the horror of blood. No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous. The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. Visit the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics Center for more key statistics.Hear “The Masque of the Red Death” read aloud. Survival rates are discussed in Survival Rates for Breast Cancer. This includes women still being treated and those who have completed treatment. American Indian/Alaska Natives have the lowest rates of developing breast cancer.Īt this time there are more than 3.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.Asian/Pacific Islanders have the lowest death rate from breast cancer.White and Asian/Pacific Islander women are more likely to be diagnosed with localized breast cancer than Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
Black women have the highest death rate from breast cancer.The median age of diagnosis is slightly younger for Black women (60 years old) compared to White women 63 years old).Some variations in breast cancer can be seen between racial and ethnic groups. These decreases are believed to be the result of finding breast cancer earlier through screening and increased awareness, as well as better treatments. From 2013 to 2018, the death rate went down by 1% per year. Since 2007, breast cancer death rates have been steady in women younger than 50, but have continued to decrease in older women. The chance that a woman will die from breast cancer is about 1 in 39 (about 2.6%). (Only lung cancer kills more women each year.) In recent years, incidence rates have increased by 0.5% per year.īreast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. This also means there is a 7 in 8 chance she will never have the disease. This means there is a 1 in 8 chance she will develop breast cancer. Overall, the average risk of a woman in the United States developing breast cancer sometime in her life is about 13%. This means half of the women who developed breast cancer are 62 years of age or younger when they are diagnosed.Ī very small number of women diagnosed with breast cancer are younger than 45. The median age at the time of breast cancer diagnosis is 62. About 43,600 women will die from breast cancer.īreast cancer mainly occurs in middle-aged and older women.About 49,290 new cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) will be diagnosed.About 281,550 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.The American Cancer Society's estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2021 are:
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers.