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Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
There are various risk factors connected with breast cancer, including increasing age and hormonal factors, especially menstrual life and childbirth history. Breast cancer in close family members (first degree relatives) increases risk.
Other factors associated with increased risk are a previous history of breast cancer or benign disease, and increased body size, especially a heavier body weight at older ages.
Research is still continuing in many areas.
Follow the links below to find information on risk factors for breast cancer.
Reviewed April 2012
13 Resources Found
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| Title: | Breast awareness & screening |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Victoria |
| Description: | Women aged 50 to 69 should have a mammogram (breast x-ray) every 2 years to screen for breast cancer. Women of all ages are encouraged to become familiar with the normal look and feel of their breasts at different times of the month. |
| Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Title: | Early detection of breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Australia |
| Description: | When breast cancer is detected early, women have a much greater chance of being treated successfully and for most women the cancer will not come back after treatment. Read patient fact sheet on symptoms, screening and reducing risk of cancer. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Phytoestrogens and breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health |
| Description: | There has been much speculation about phytoestrogens - particularly soy products, and breast cancer risk. This is mainly based on the idea that because these foods contain oestrogen, they can stimulate the breast tissue like our own body's oestrogen or prescribed oestrogen might. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Cancer genetic risk assessment for individuals at risk of familial breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The recognition of an inherited component to breast cancer has led to an increase in demand for information, reassurance, and genetic testing, which resulted in the creation of genetic clinics for familial cancer. Cancer genetic services can involve ext... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health |
| Description: | About Breast Cancer. What is Breast Cancer? Who is most at risk of developing breast cancer? Mammography. Common Breast Problems. External Resources - organisations and other sources of support |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Victoria |
| Description: | There are several types of breast cancer. Most are not found before they have grown beyond the milk ducts or milk lobules into other breast tissue or out of the breast. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Breast cancer prevention - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | In the battle against breast cancer, it helps to know your breasts and the lifestyle factors that can increase or decrease your risk. |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Breast cancer: early diagnosis is the key - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | The good news is that with advances in treatment and diagnosis, more women are surviving breast cancer than ever before. |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Screening guidelines for women exposed in utero to diethylstilboestrol (DES) |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | Diethylstilboestrol, or DES (also known as stilboestrol), is a synthetic oestrogen which was used between 1940 and the early 1970s to prevent miscarriage in women with a previous poor pregnancy outcome. |
| Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Title: | Family history - Breast cancer risk factors - Cancer Australia |
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| Publisher: | Cancer Australia |
| Description: | Family history as risk factors for developing breast cancer |
| Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Title: | Breast cancer facts and figures - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Discover some fast facts about breast cancer in Australia, including how common it is, the biggest risk factor, average age of diagnosis and survival rates. |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Managing healthy women at risk of breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | Several risk factors for breast cancer have been identified. The most important of these are ageing and a positive family history. Optimal breast cancer prevention strategies in high-risk women are still to be determined and are the subject of ongoing clinical trials. |
| Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Title: | Breast feeding benefits - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Studies show that women who breast feed have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer later in life. |
| Date: | May 2002 |
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