Finally, it needs to be reminded that having one or more risk factors does not necessarily mean that you will get breast cancer, but statistically, people with the above risk factors are more at risk of breast cancer than the general population. It is recommended that women with the above r...
Risk factors of breast cancer belongs in the field of epidemiology of breast cancer. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary risk factors. Although many epidemiological risk factors have been...
Ductal and lobular carcinomas are the two most common types of invasive breast cancer. Whether well-established risk factors are differentially associated with risk on the basis of histologic subtype is not clear. We prospectively investigated the association between a number of hormonal and nonhormona...
Archival reports demonstrate that black females are in the minority of reported breast cancer cases, yet are given a significantly poorer prognosis than their white counterparts. Numerous studies have been conducted in an attempt to explain this discrepa
A risk factor is anything that increases a person's chance of getting a disease. Different cancers have different risk factors. However, having acancerrisk factor, or even several of them, does not necessarily mean that a person will getcancer. Some women with one or more breast cancer risk...
Breast Cancer Symptoms Types of Breast Cancer Causes and Risk Factors 15 min read What Is Breast Cancer? Breast cancer is when the cells under one or both breasts grow out of control. Those cells may spread beyond your breasts. When that happens, the cancer is called metastatic. Did You...
Risk factors for breast cancer include the following: Gender Women are at much greater risk for breast cancer than men; breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in American women. However, men can develop breast cancer as well; it is estimated that approximately 1,000 men develop brea...
Risk Factors for Breast Cancer About 1 in 8 women have breast cancer in their lifetime. There are certain risk factors that increase the chance of having breast cancer. These include Older age Family history of breast cancer (especially at younger ages) ...
Globally, breast cancer (BC) is currently the most common cancer diagnosed in women below the age of 40, accounting for 244,000 cases per year.1 It is also the second highest cause of cancer-relate...
Breast cancer related upper extremity lymphedema (BCRL) reduces the quality of life of those who have had surgery for breast cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk factors for BCRL and determine whether immediate autologous tissue breast reconstruction is one of them. A case co...