Learning about Breast Cancer Risk

By Antin. Recognize the breast cancer risk and lower it may be the best breast cancer prevention. It is important for by every woman to do regular breast examination, especially for those women who have greater risk on developing breast cancer. Let’s find out our breast cancer risk by reading this article carefully.

Being female is the main risk factor for breast cancer. The incident of breast cancer in men is less than 1%. The reason for this is that women have more breast cells and these cells are constantly exposed to estrogen and progesterone which are believed to stimulate the growth of cancer cells.

Some breast cancer risk can not be controlled like Age, history of cancer in family, menstrual period (started their periods early or enter the menopause late), not having any children or giving birth after the age of 30. We can’t avoid these factors but if these happen to us, we have to increase our awareness by taking regular breast examination. As we all know treatment of cancer will give a better result when it started in early stage.

Our lifestyle may increase our breast cancer risk. Drinking and smoking is a bad habit for our health and it also gives us a greater risk for developing breast cancer. Eating junk food which contains high calories, sugar, and saturated fat can cause overweight/obesity that will affect to your breast cancer risk. In addition, women who put on more than 10kgs in weight after the age of 30 are twice as likely to develop the disease than those whose body mass remains stable.

Some studies have found relationships between breast cancer risk and body weight, body shape, and height. But the explanation about how the body weight, body shape, or height increases breast cancer risk is unclear.


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