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What are the risk factors for developing breast cancer?

The most significant risk factors for breast cancer are gender and age. Men can develop breast cancer, but women are 100 times more likely to develop...

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Are there lifestyle and dietary factors that can decrease the risk of breast cancer?

Weight is a really important factor to the postmenopausal woman. Higher body mass index and postmenopausal weight gain increase a woman’s risk for...

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What increases the risk of getting breast cancer?

Although the exact cause of breast cancer is not known, most experts agree that there are several factors that increase your risk of breast cancer...

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What is the link between estrogen and breast cancer?

Estrogen is a female hormone that is produced by the ovaries. During the reproductive years, a woman's body is exposed to high levels of estrogen...

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Should my lymph nodes be removed if I have been diagnosed with breast cancer?

Lymph nodes are small glandular structures that filter tissue fluids. They filter out and ultimately try to provide an immune response to particles...

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How is breast cancer staging determined?

To plan your treatment, your doctor needs to know the extent (stage) of the disease. The stage is based on the size of the tumor and whether the...

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What are the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer?

Unlike the more common form of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer does not generally show up as a lump. The disease grows as nests or sheets...

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What are the symptoms of breast cancer?

The symptoms of breast cancer include painless breast lumps, nipple discharge, and inflammation of the skin of the breast.Breast cancer usually...

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I lost my brother to breast cancer. Since having children, I still get some milk out of the nipple. Is this normal?

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What is the importance of early breast cancer detection?

The various types of cancers behave differently, with distinct rates of growth and patterns of spreading (metastasis) to other areas of the body...

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What are the biological causes of breast cancer?

Breast cancer cells, like all cancers, initially develop because of defects in the genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of a single cell. The...

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How would a breast cancer recurrence be treated?

The type of treatment for local breast cancer recurrences depends on your initial treatment. If you had a lumpectomy, local recurrence is usually...

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