Going by the recent statistics forwarded by the American Cancer Society (ACS), there has been a 2 percent yearly drop in the breast cancer death rates since 1990; thereby implying that nearly 15,000 breast cancer deaths have been avoided in this year alone.

In other words, though an estimated number of 192,370 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, only 40,170 will die from it.

Surprisingly, even though the rate of diagnosis of breast cancer is higher among white women vis-à-vis the black women, they have a lower death rate. In fact, the number of breast cancer deaths is almost 40 percent higher in black women than their white counterparts.

The figures related to the survival rates for women with breast cancer showed that while 89 percent women survived for 5 years post-diagnosis, 82 percent survived for 10 years, and 75 percent of the women survived for 15 years after diagnosis.

A state-wise analysis has revealed that Utah is the state with the lowest breast cancer rate for white women, 111.5 cases per 100,000 women; Hawaii has the highest breast cancer rate for white women, reporting 139.1 cases per 100,000 women.

Similarly, for black women, the states with the lowest and the highest breast cancer rates are New Mexico and Kentucky, respectively with 60.9 and 127.3 cases per 100,000 women.