Primary Care for Survivors of Breast Cancer

There are more than 2 million women in the United States alone who are living with a history of breast cancer.1,2 Screening programs have increased the number of women in whom invasive or noninvasive breast cancer has been diagnosed, and earlier detection and better treatment have led to improved prognosis. Thus, although the average U.S. woman has a 12.6 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer — a percentage that has risen in recent years — her risk of death from breast cancer has remained constant at 3.6 percent. Most women in whom breast cancer is diagnosed do not die . . .