These include eating healthy, exercising regularly, and limiting the amount of alcohol you drink. Leading a healthy lifestyle will not eliminate your chance of getting breast cancer, but it can help reduce your risk. For high-risk women, the antiestrogen drug tamoxifen can also help to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. Anyone can get breast cancer. They also have a better chance of survival, primarily because their cancer is usually detected earlier.
All women are at risk for breast cancer.
Known risk factors like getting older, having a family history of breast cancer, and starting menopause after age 55 account for only a small number of new breast cancer cases every year. That means most women who get breast cancer have no known risk factors except being a woman and getting older. I have a family history of breast cancer. Just because other family members have had breast cancer, it doesn't mean their disease was inherited. Some breast cancers are inherited from your parents.