BC cases estimated to increase by 50% by 2030

"Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, wasn't involved with Rosenberg's analysis but was in the audience during the presentation. He pointed out that while the numbers seem dire, it's important to remember that the outsized numbers don't mean that the U.S. is about to face an epidemic of breast cancer. Rather, a woman's overall chances for developing breast cancer will remain roughly the same -- around 1 in 8.

"I think that the way it was worded was perhaps unfortunate because the risk of breast cancer for an individual woman is going to stay about the same, but the absolute number of people who get breast cancer is going to increase from the increasing size of the population and the increasing number of people alive in their 70s, 80s and 90s," he said in a phone conversation with the Huffington Post."