| Breast cancer usually happens when certain cells | | | | history or a relative with breast cancer. Other risk |
| located in the breast start to grow out of control, | | | | factors are having your menopause late, having |
| taking over nearby tissue and spreading throughout | | | | children past the age of thirty, or contracting a |
| the body. Large collections of this infected tissue are | | | | genetic mutation that would somehow increase your |
| called "tumors". Some tumors are not even | | | | risk.Certain types of risk factors that you can change |
| considered to be cancer because they cannot spread | | | | are:- not taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), |
| throughout the body or threaten a person's life. | | | | which means that long term uses of estrogens for |
| These types of tumors are called "benign | | | | menopause symptoms does in fact slightly increase |
| tumors".The types of tumors that do spread | | | | your risk.- stopping the use of birth control pills, |
| throughout the body and invade the tissues around | | | | because it is noted that ten years following the |
| the breast are considered to be cancer and have | | | | cessation of The Pill, a woman's risk of breast cancer |
| been given the name "malignant tumors". It is said | | | | reverts to what it would have been if she had not |
| that any type of tissue in the breast can form some | | | | used this form of birth control.However, neither of |
| type of cancer, but it mostly comes from either | | | | these risks are as significant as the ones that are |
| ducts or glands.It can take months or even years for | | | | associated with your gender, age, and family |
| a tumor to get big enough for someone to actually | | | | history.All the factors are based on probabilities, and |
| feel it in their breast, so they are encouraged to be | | | | that means that a person without any of those |
| screened for tumors by a mammogram. | | | | mentioned is still subject to developing breast cancer |
| Mammograms are designed to detect any type of | | | | and the best way to be sure is to get the proper |
| disease before a person even begins to feel it.Breast | | | | screening and detection for breast cancer |
| cancer is the most common "malignancy" that affects | | | | development.There are preventative measures that |
| women in America and throughout Europe. Every | | | | can be taken, up to a point. It is noted that a drug |
| single woman is at risk of getting breast cancer and | | | | called Tamoxifen is not used widely as a prevention, |
| almost 200,000 cases of were said to be diagnosed | | | | but it has been proved to be helpful in some cases. |
| in the United States in 2001. It is the second highest | | | | There is also a limited amount of data that suggests |
| cause, behind lung cancer, of cancer deaths among | | | | that Vitamin A may be useful in the prevention of |
| women in North America.The types of risk factors | | | | breast cancer, but further research is needed to |
| for breast cancer are divided into two types, those | | | | prove this.The most important step for a woman to |
| you can't change and those you can change. The | | | | prevent breast cancer is to schedule regular |
| factors associated with increasing your risk of breast | | | | checkups, screenings and mammograms, learn how |
| cancer that your can't change include: just being a | | | | to perform her own exams, and also to acquire all |
| woman, getting older, or having some type of family | | | | the information she can about the subject. |