Risk Factors
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An estimated 19,540 new cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among African American women in 2009.
The overall incidence rate of breast cancer is 10% lower in African American women than white women.
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An estimated 19,540 new cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among African American women in 2009.
The overall incidence rate of breast cancer is 10% lower in African American women than white women.
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Women who have a close relative (mother, sister or daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of the disease and the risk increases with an increase in the number of relatives diagnosed with the disease. At the same time the majority of cases occur in women with no family history of the disease.
So what are the other risk factors?
Obesity can increase your risk of getting postmenopausal breast cancer by up to 30 percent.
Hormone Replacement Therapy can increase your risk by up to 66 percent.
Oral contraceptives increases the risk of breast cancer by around a quarter
Alcohol consumption can increase your risk of the disease; even one drink
a day can increase your risk by around 12 percent.
Smoking cigarettes may also increase your risk of breast cancer, and
increases your risk of a range of other cancers.
An active lifestyle can reduce your risk of breast cancer.
There is also evidence that migrants from low risk countries,
within Asia and Africa, acquire the risk level of their new
country within two generations. England and the majority of
the rest of Europe have high rates of the disease.
Obesity can increase your risk of getting postmenopausal breast cancer by up to 30 percent.
Hormone Replacement Therapy can increase your risk by up to 66 percent.
Oral contraceptives increases the risk of breast cancer by around a quarter
Alcohol consumption can increase your risk of the disease; even one drink
a day can increase your risk by around 12 percent.
Smoking cigarettes may also increase your risk of breast cancer, and
increases your risk of a range of other cancers.
An active lifestyle can reduce your risk of breast cancer.
There is also evidence that migrants from low risk countries,
within Asia and Africa, acquire the risk level of their new
country within two generations. England and the majority of
the rest of Europe have high rates of the disease.
Oncologist and genetics expert Funmi Olopade, MD, is one of the world's leading authorities on hereditary breast cancer and cancer risk assessment. In this video she talks about why she became a doctor, her research to find better treatments
