Less of study showed that the breast cancer affected men. But breast cancer affected many women in the world and it is caused death. There a number of risk factors of breast cancer include:
- Age : between 45 to 55 or older
- Gender : if you are woman, the possibility to have breast cancer caused by the exposing of growth-promoting effects of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone
- Genes : woman who infected by the breast cancer probably inherited from her parent.
Personal factors : beginning periods before age 12 or going through menopause after age 55
Other risks: being overweight, using hormone replacement therapy, taking birth control pills, drinking alcohol, not having children or possibility of first child after age 35 or having dense breasts.
Symptoms of breast cancer:
- A lump in the breast
- Change in size or shape of the breast or discharge from a nipple.
Treatment may consist of:
- Radiation,
- Lumpectomy,
- Mastectomy
- Chemotherapy
- Hormone therapy.
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