Are you a high risk of breast cancer first?

No one knows the exact causes of breast cancer. Doctors can seldom explain why one woman gets breast cancer and others do not.

Doctors to know that shock, damage or the breast does not lead to breast cancer. A breast cancer is not contagious. No one can "catch" the disease from another person.

But research has shown that women with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop breast cancer. Risk is a factor for everything a person increases the chance to develop the disease. The study showed the risk factors for breast cancer:

1st Šanci in the procurement of breast cancer as a woman is getting older.

2nd A woman who has breast cancer in one breast, is an increased risk of the disease in their other breast.

3rd The woman is the risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister or daughter had breast cancer, especially at a young age (up to 40 years).

4th The older a woman is when his first child, the greater are his chances of breast cancer. Women who began menstruation (had her first menstrual period) at an early age (up to the age of 12 years), late menopause over (after the completion of 55 years of age), or never had children are also at increased risk.

5th Breast cancer occurs more often than women in white, Latina, Asian or African American women.

6th Women who had radiation therapy to the breast (including the chest) to the age of 30 are at increased risk of breast cancer. These include women treated with radiation for Hodgkin's lymphoma. Studies show that the young woman was when he received radiation therapy, the higher the risk of breast cancer later in life.

7th Older women are mostly non-dense fat) tissue of mammography (x-ray of the breast), are at increased risk of breast cancer.

8th After menopause, women are obese, have an increased risk of breast cancer. As obese means that a woman has an extremely high percentage of body fat. As the bodies of some of its estrogen (a hormone) in the fat, overweight women are more likely than thin women have higher estrogen in their bodies. High estrogen, due to the fact that obese women have an increased risk of breast cancer. Furthermore, some studies show that the acquisition of weight after menopause increases the risk of breast cancer.

9th Women who are physically inactive throughout life, it seems, there is an increased risk of breast cancer. As a physically active can help reduce the risk to prevent weight and obesity.

It is useful to be aware of risk factors. But it is also important to remember that the majority of women who have these risk factors do not get breast cancer.

A woman who thinks that may be at risk of breast cancer should discuss these concerns with their health provider. The health sector may propose ways to reduce the risk and can plan an appropriate timetable for a revision.