Risk factors for breast cancer

Risk factors for breast cancer

 Several factors may lead to breast cancer, these factors relate to heredity, environment or other diseases of the breast. The most important factors that may lead to breast cancer are:· Gender: Breast cancer affects women a hundred times more than men.· Generation: increasing risk of breast cancer with age, especially after the age of fifty.· Family history: increase the risk of developing breast cancer if they found cases of breast cancer in family members of the first class ( mother and sister).· Breast cancer in the other breast, increases the risk of breast cancer.· The presence of breast cancer in the past.
· Menarche before the age of twelve, because it increases the vulnerability of the tissue to estrogen.· Late menopause after the age of fifty-five, because it increases the exposure of breast tissue to estrogen.· Late birth: whenever the birth was delayed more exposure to estrogen.· The number of births little or no confinement: protect from breast cancer, so fewer births increased risk for breast cancer.· Obesity and excess weight.· Alcoholic beverages.· Hormone replacement therapies: that hormone therapy - especially estrogen - for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, for a period of more than ten years increases the risk of breast cancer.· Taking the pill for more than ten years.· Radiotherapy: radiotherapy of the chest - to treat another cancer in the chest often - increases the risk of breast cancer.· Genetic factors: Some genetic factors increase the risk of breast cancer. Studies have shown the presence of certain genes increase the risk of breast cancer, and these genes are also associated with ovarian cancer. The most important of these genes are BRCA1 & BRCA2.· Other factors increase the risk of breast cancer, but they are less important than the previous factors. Since women skin  risk for breast cancer than white skin. The women who live the city gestational more than women in rural areas.Many factors may lead to breast cancer, and the effect of different factors, and it may be confusing to some. So preferable to discuss risk factors with a specialist breast cancer.

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What is Breast Cancer

What is Breast Cancer



Breast cancer is cancer of the breast tissue, and lead to malignant tumors. May affect breast cancer in women or men, but it is more common in women and is the most common cancers in women. Breast cancer affects women of every eight women. Breast cancer may be asymptomatic, but it leads to the symptoms of pain  or lump in the breast. Possible that breast cancer spreads to many members, or lead to complications. Because breast cancer is a common cancer, there is the importance of early detection and by screening tests. Breast cancer can be treated several possibilities, possibilities include treatment available surgical treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy. Not all tumors in the breast are breast cancer, some tumors are benign and some are cancerous.

Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among women, which is the second leading cause of death from cancer in women. Breast cancer affects women of every eight women, and leads to the death of one of every fourteen women. Breast cancer affects women in the age applicants, especially age 65 and above. Although breast cancer may spread and lead to death in many cases, but that early detection breast cancer can be treated and cured.

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