Risk factors for breast cancer

CDC - What Are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?

A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease, such as cancer. But having a risk factor, or even many, does not mean that you are sure to get the disease. While you cant change some breast cancer risk factorsfamily history and aging, for examplethere are some risk factors that you can control.

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Risk factors for breast cancer

Risk factors for breast cancer may be divided into preventable and nonpreventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms

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CDC - What Are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?

One of the bestdocumented risk factors for breast cancer (and for many other cancers) is age. As seen in Figure 1, the incidence of breast cancer is extremely low before age 30 (incidence 25 cases per 100, 000), after which it increases linearly until the age of 80, reaching a plateau of slightly less than 500 cases per 100, 000.

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Risk factors for breast cancer

An interactive tool designed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the NSABP to estimate a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer.

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Risk factors for breast cancer

Learn about the genetic and environmental risk factors for breast cancer, and what you can do to lower your risk.

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CDC - What Are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?

How can the answer be improved?

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Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention

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Risk Factors - National Breast Cancer Foundation

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Breast Cancer Risk Factors

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Breast Cancer Risk Factors Table Susan G Komen

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Risk Factors for Breast Cancer - webmdcom

Some women will get breast cancer even without any other risk factors that they know of. Having a risk factor does not mean you will get the disease, and not all risk factors

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Risk factors for breast cancer - Wikipedia

Learn more from WebMD about the risk factors for getting breast cancer.