AIDS is the disease caused by the damage that HIV does to your immune system. You have AIDS when you get rare, dangerous infections or have a super low number of CD4 cells. AIDS is the most serious stage of HIV, and it leads to death over time.
1 One in every 330 Americans will develop cancer by the age of 20. 2  On the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year. 3  On the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. 4  The average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.
Breast Cancer StatisticsAccording to the American Cancer Society (ACS), a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes. Taken directly from the ACS Web site:About 178,480 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007. About 40,460 women will die from the disease this year.