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Treatment
Demographics
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100
Drinking this on a daily basis can increase your risk of breast cancer by 7%
What is alcohol? Women who had two to three alcoholic drinks per day had a 20 percent higher risk of breast cancer.
100
This form of treatment uses chemicals to kill or disable cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy?
100

This group of women is known to have denser breast, one of the strongest predictors of risk for breast cancer 

Who are African American women? 

100

In the United States how many Women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in their lifetime?

1 in 8 


100

This actress authored an op-ed for the New York Times in 2013 where she wrote that she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure.

Who is Angelina Jolie?

200
Doing this on a regular basis not only reduces your risk of obesity also reduces your risk of breast cancer by 10 to 20 percent.
What is exercising?
200

This is a common first step in treating breast cancer to physically remove the tumor and surrounding tissue

What is Surgery? 

200
Historically, breast cancer has been rare in this group of women.
Who are Native American Women?
200

How common is breast cancer among Women in the United States

It is the 2nd leading cancer diagnosis after skin cancer

200
In the U.S., this many women die of breast cancer every day.
What is 112?
300
The ingestion of this plant increases risk of breast cancer by 13 to 24 percent.
What is tobacco? The rate of new cases of breast cancer is 24% higher in smokers than in nonsmokers and 13% higher in former smokers than in nonsmokers.
300
This form of surgery removes the entire breast.
What is mastectomy?
300
Because this group of women tend to be diagnosed with later stage breast cancers than white women, they may be less likely to get prompt follow-up after an abnormal mammogram?
Who are Hispanic women?
300

What is the percentage of men that are diagnosed with breast cancer among women?

1% or less

300

This former daytime talk show host underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 19 after being falsely diagnosed with breast cancer. Hint: HIS show was syndicated from 1991 to 2008.

Who is Montel Williams?

400
Although though these are taken as a form of prevention, they actually increase risk of breast cancer by 10 to 30 percent.
What are birth control pills?
400
This type of therapy uses targeted, high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells.
What is radiation therapy?
400

This group of women have a greater risk of breast cancer than other women because of certain risk factors, such as never having children or having them later in life.

Who are LGBTQ Women?

400

The second leading cause of cancer death for U.S women, it is after lung cancer

Breast Cancer

400

At this age, the youngest known survivor of breast cancer, Aleisha Hunter from Ontario, Canada underwent a complete mastectomy in 2010 to treat her juvenile strain of breast cancer.

What is age 3?

500
This form of screening correctly identifies 78% of women who have breast cancer.
What is mammography?
500
This form of therapy is a drug designed to target a certain molecular agent or pathway involved in the development of cancer.
What is targeted therapy?
500

Breast and ovarian cancer are somewhat more common among these women due to the highprevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BReast CAncer 1 and 2) gene mutations in these women.

Who are women of Jewish descent (ancestors who came from Central or Eastern Europe)?

500

What is the survival rate for Breast cancer if discovered upon its earliest stage? 

What is 99%

500
This percentage of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
What is 12.4%
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