U.S. breast cancer rate dropping every year

Black women in the U.S. are somehow not seeing the annual two-percent drop in breast cancer cases every year that white women are seeing. This comes from the American Cancer Society today along with some other statistics about breast cancer.

Breast cancer diagnoses dropped at an average 3.7 percent per year during the years 2001 to 2004, but the reasons are a little muddy: many women stopped taking hormone replacement therapy, and another group stopped having mammograms. Without a mammogram, less breast cancer cases will be diagnosed, according to the report.

However, the ACS stated that over 180,000 new breast cancer cases will be diagnosed in 2007, which will result in over 40,000 people dying from the disease, including men and women.