Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Prevention
Every year for the last fifty years the number of cases of breast cancer in women has steadily increased. The only cancer that claims more women's lives in the United States is Lung Cancer.
(http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/raterisk/rates42.html) This naturally causes concern among women, and thus the question of prevention is immediately asked. With prevention of lung cancer, the easiest and most effective way is to avoid smoking completely. Breast cancer, on the other hand does not have such a direct behavioral action that dramatically changes a person's risk. There are many factors that cause a person to be more at risk for breast cancer, and there is not one simple action of prevention that is as established as not smoking is for lung cancer.
Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
There are numerous risk factors associated with breast cancer. If a person has family members with breast cancer, especially a mother or a sister, it greatly increases a woman's odds of being diagnosed. Additionally, women who have their first child before the age of twenty years old are less likely to have breast cancer than women who were over thirty years old at the time of their first child's birth or had no children at all. If a woman breast fed her babies, her risk goes down as well. The chances become higher for a woman the earlier she began menstruating during adolescence. (http://oncolink.upenn.edu/cancer_news/1994/excersise_bc.html) Women of higher economic status, living in a more urban environment in the northern United States, and who are married have the highest rates of breast cancer. (http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface...
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