There are some risk factors you can control, and others you cannot. Remember, even if you do not have any of these risk factors, you can still develop breast cancer. For a woman born today, her risk by age 30 is 1 out of 2,525. NCI SEER Program, 1993. I'm only 35.
Breast cancer happens only in older women.
While the risk of breast cancer increases with age, all women are at some risk for getting breast cancer. Women with a family history of breast cancer are the ones who typically get breast cancer. Actually, a majority of women who get breast cancer have no family history of the disease. However, a woman whose mother, sister, daughter, or grandmother had breast cancer has an increased risk. If I don't have a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, I won't get breast cancer.