However if you do have a family history of breast cancer it is recommended to talk to your doctor about it. Interventions could be suggested such as more frequent mammograms and a change to diet and exercise. If you have your first child after the age of 30 then the risk of breast cancer rises slightly as does the risk for women who began menstruating before the age of 12. The following are some breast cancer myths that can confuse women worried about the possibility of breast cancer. Breast cancer inherited genetically accounts for a very small percentage of women diagnosed.
ALL women are at risk of breast cancer.
This is not true. If you have an existing cancer that was too small to be detected, a blow to the breast could cause it to bleed making detection easier. Or the scarring of breast tissue caused by trauma could feel like a lump and could actually show up on a mammogram but a biopsy would be able to show that this is not cancerous. Men don t get breast cancer Men are diagnosed every year as having breast cancer albeit not as regularly as women. Unfortunately, as men don t consider the possibility of breast cancer it is usually diagnosed at the later stages.