Breast cancer was surrounded by secrecy until the 1980s, when brave individuals such as former First Ladies Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan, and founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Nancy Brinker (Susan Komen's sister), began speaking publicly about the personal impact of the disease, which...
About this article Cite this article Koh, J., Im, SA. Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 24, 653 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-024-00733-3 Download citation Published14 August 2024 Issue DateOctober 2024 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-024-0073...
Family history of breast cancer impacted mammography adherence, beliefs about outcomes with early detection, and risk perceptions. Breast cancer death in a family may be a better predictor of beliefs about breast cancer detection and cure than family history of cancer alone. These findings have ...
27 Moreover, we excluded women with any history of cancer, whereas their analysis included women with personal breast cancer history.14 Hence, our work provides new information about the associations between FHBC and mammographic breast density among premenopausal women. Strengths and Limitations Our ...
The role of genetic predisposition in male breast cancer (MBC) patients who test negative for a BRCA mutation is unclear. The aim of this study is to defin
Diet patterns and breast cancer risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women: the Four-Corners Breast Cancer Study BACKGROUND: There is a lower incidence of breast cancer among Hispanic women than among non-Hispanic white women. Little is known about the role of diet in... MA Murtaugh,C ...
This chapter reviews the history of cancer of the male breast. The twentieth century of the clinical and pathologic features of the disease, the hormonal influences, and genetic factors are discussed. Male breast cancer remains an interesting rarity, which unlike female breast cancer, is not increa...
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Most life insurance companies that responded to the survey would offer a standard premium in scenario 1 (unremarkable except breast cancer in the mother diagnosed at age 35). The lifetime relative risk of developing breast cancer for the applicant in scenario 1 is 5.7 (2.7 to 11.8).2 Using ...
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