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Risk Factors
- Being female
- Early menarchy
- Late menopause
- Children not being born until after age 30
- Family history
Major risk factors:
- Previous breast cancer
- Family history (more than one family member)
- A pre-menopausal 1st degree relative, or a male
- atypical ductal hyperplasia & atypical lobula hyperplasia
History |
% of total breast cancer |
Lifetime risk of patient |
Sporatic |
70-80% |
3% |
Familial |
15-20% |
15-30% |
Hereditary |
5-10% |
50-60% |
Genetic |
1-10% |
80-90% |
Decreasing the risk of breast cancer:
- Healthy diet - lots of green leafy vegetables
- Vitamin E succinate
- Flaxseed
- Excercise - (breast cancer risk has been shown to decrease by 40% in women who excercised 3 times weekly from teens into adulthood.)
- Tamoxifen - decreased risk by 50%
- Prophylactic Mastectomy - decreased risk by 99.5%
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