Breast Cancer
Awareness Month 2024

Living Beyond Breast Cancer helps people diagnosed with breast cancer understand their options, make informed decisions, and connect to people who have been where they are.  Those diagnosed are taking control of their experience by making choices that express their values and individuality.

This October, Living Beyond Breast Cancer is sharing some of the ways people thrive with breast cancer and how your support today can help people impacted by breast cancer — all year long. This year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month theme is Thrive365.

Quick facts about breast cancer

• About one in eight U.S. women and one in 726 U.S. men will develop breast cancer over the course of their lives.
• In 2024, an estimated 310,720 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in the U.S. An estimated 56,500 people will be diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a non-invasive breast cancer.
• An estimated 42,250 women will lose their lives to stage IV or metastatic breast cancer in 2024.
• In 2024, there were over 4 million women living with a history of breast cancer in the US.
• About 9% of all new breast cancer cases are diagnosed in women 45 and under.
• Though Black women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white women, Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer.

These numbers remind us there is still urgent work to do — more than we can accomplish in just one month.

Why Living Beyond Breast Cancer?

For over 30 years, Living Beyond Breast Cancer has been a trusted resource for people with breast cancer and their loved ones. We have provided information to and a community for more than a million people. Yet, we have so much more to do. When you support Living Beyond Breast Cancer, you make an immediate, positive difference in the lives of people affected by breast cancer.

Living Beyond Breast Cancer is one of the highest-ranking breast cancer organizations in the U. S.:

• For 19 consecutive years, LBBC has earned a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. Four stars is the highest possible ranking for financial health and responsibility.
• Through strong financial management, we earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly GuideStar).
• USA Today recommends LBBC as one of the top breast cancer charities for support services and education.
• We have been awarded three competitive CDC Cooperative Agreements in a row to serve young women with breast cancer.

Get social: show your support

• Share how you #thrive365 with a picture of what thriving means to you and why. Be sure to use the # and tag us @livingbeyondbc
• Follow us on your preferred social media and re-share our stories, statistics, and posts. See our social media toolkit for sample messages and graphics and write your own posts.

Partner with us

There are many ways to support the breast cancer community – through financial donations, employee engagement, customer involvement, and event and cause-related sponsorship. Join over 80 corporate and industry partners to support one of the highest rated breast cancer charities in the US.