Breast
Cancer: Risks and Prevention, Third Edition (Online
Booklet)
 This
booklet is written to help women understand what their
risk factors are for the development of breast cancer
and how they can reduce their risk.
Sometimes women are made to feel helpless
and hopeless when it comes to their risk of developing
breast cancer. After all, they cannot change the fact
that they are women, are getting older, and have already
inherited a certain set of genes from their parents.
These are well-established risks for breast cancer.
However, there are factors you can control to minimize
your risk, including the amount of estrogen to which
you are exposed and your reproductive history. Even
if you have inherited either of the BRCA genes, which
are well known to increase the risk of cancer, you can
control other aspects of your life to decrease your
risk.
In order to understand and control
your risk factors for breast cancer, you must first
understand how risk is expressed in numbers, how exposure
to estrogen relates to most known risk factors, and
how the maturity of breast lobules from Type 1 &
2 to Type 3 & 4 lobules decreases the risk of breast
cancer. This booklet will also inform you about risk
reduction strategies.
The Breast Cancer: Risks and Prevention,
Third Edition is available to read on line and
will be available for purchase as of October 1, 2005.
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