Breast cancer deaths have been going down lately, largely because we’re getting better at finding them and treating them before they find their way out of the breast. But the incidence of breast cancers hasn’t been going down at all. There’s still a one-in-eight chance that I, as an American woman, will develop breast cancer at some point in my lifetime, and those stats are similar worldwide.[*35] Having breasts and making milk isn’t just socially expensive, in other words; it is, all on its own, a dangerous affair.
