Via: defendernetwork.com
1. Myth: Only women can get breast cancer.
Reality: Dads, husbands, and brothers can develop breast cancer, too, but it’s far less common in men than it is in women. Every year, about 2,000 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, compared with about 200,000 women.
2. Myth: Breast cancer is the most common cause of death for women.
Reality: Actually, it’s not even the leading cause of cancer-related death. Both heart disease (the leading cause of death among American women) and lung cancer (the leading cause of cancer-related death) kill more women every year than breast cancer does.
3. Myth: A breast cancer diagnosis means you’re going to die.
Reality: This is usually true—in the movies. In fact, a recent study found that films drastically over-portray cancer as a death sentence; in 63 percent of the movies studied, cancer patients died of the disease. But in truth, thefive-year survival rate for early-stage breast cancer is more than 90 percent.
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