All women are at risk for breast cancer.
The older you are, the greater your chance of getting it. Women who have a mother, sister or daughter with breast cancer are at higher risk, particularly if the relative's cancer occurred before menopause or in both breasts. For Asian Americans who immigrated to the United States at least a decade ago, the risk of breast cancer is 80 percent higher than that of new immigrants. And for those born in the U.S., the breast cancer risk is similar to that of Caucasian women. 1 Of the major ethnic populations in the United States, Asian Americans have the lowest breast cancer mortality rate.