Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

There are various risk factors connected with breast cancer, including increasing age and hormonal factors, especially the determinants of 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.

Updated January 2009

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Title:   Breast cancer
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:   Sep 2009

Title:   Early detection of breast cancer
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   The chance of a woman developing breast cancer up to age 85 is 1 in 9. Over 12,000 women are diagnosed each year in Australia. 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.
Date:   Aug 2009

Title:   Breast cancer prevention - myDr.com.au
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
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:   Breast cancer
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:   Oct 2008

Title:   Screening guidelines for women exposed in utero to diethylstilboestrol (DES)
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 - NBOCC
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)
Description:   Family history as risk factors for developing breast cancer
Date:   Mar 2008

Title:   Breast awareness and screening
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.
Date:   Nov 2007

Title:   Phytoestrogens and breast cancer
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:   Oct 2007

Title:   Cancer genetic risk assessment for individuals at risk of familial breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   ...
Date:   Feb 2007

Title:   Breast cancer facts and figures - myDr.com.au
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
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
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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