PET/CT and breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women.The lifetime risk for the development of breast canceris currently 1 in 8 (12%) in the developed world. TheAmerican Cancer Society predicts that over 250,000cases of new breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2010.This is composed of about 207,090 new cases of invasivebreast cancer and 54,010 new cases of carcinoma in situ.There will be about 40,000 deaths from breast cancer inthe United States in 2010