KNOX COUNTY - According to the American CancerSociety(ACS),theaverageriskofa womanintheUnitedStatesdevelopingbreast cancersometimeinherlifeisabout13%.This meansthereisa1in8chanceshewilldevelop breastcancer.Thisalsomeansthereisa7in8 chance she will never have the disease.
The older a woman is, the more likely she is to get breast cancer. Rates of breast cancer are low in women under 40. About 4% of …