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After a breast cancer diagnosis, life can suddenly feel organised around appointments, reports and treatment schedules. Yet between those medical decisions, there are ordinary parts of the day that still matter: what you eat, how you sleep, whether you move your body and how you manage stress.

Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among women in the United States and represents roughly around 30% to 32% of all newly diagnosed female cancers each year. Approximately 1 in 8 women, or about 13% of the U.S. female population are at a risk to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Despite these high numbers, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women, trailing only lung cancer.

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among women in the United States. It accounts for approximately 30% of all new cancer cases diagnosed in women each year and about 1 in 8 women in the U.S.is expected to develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. Although breast cancer predominantly affects women, men can also develop the disease, although male breast cancer is considerably less common.