In fact, as we said, most women who have breast cancer have no family history. But if you do have a relative who is close, like mom who has had breast cancer, your risk does go up. However, she has a question that she has sent in. Your doctor will tell you if you should start mammograms at younger than 40. Women who have a relative diagnosed when she was young may need to start screening at a younger age themselves.
Many doctors incorrectly think that lumpectomy is more risky than removing the breast.
But in fact, it is breast cancer that travels and spreads that threatens a woman's life not how the cancer in the breast is treated. No question, removing just the cancer makes it easier to recover from breast cancer and feel as you did before. But what we do know is that estrogen tends to fuel the growth of breast cancer so if you have a tendency toward breast cancer in your family it may be safer to avoid these, but do ask your doctor. And organizing and fighting for money. Because women in the U.S. breast feed babies for a short period of time, compared to China where seven years in a row is not uncommon the Chinese study that was the first to show risk reduction may not be useful for us Americans.