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Breast Cancer Facts
Risk Factors
Types and Classifications
Detection
Decreasing Risks
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With the exception of skin cancer, this is the most common cancer in women.
What is Breast Cancer?
100
These are the major risk factors for developing breast cancer
What is being a woman and getting older?
100
A pre-invasive condition that is usually treated with breast conserving surgery & radiation therapy or mastectomy.
What is Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS)?
100
Becoming aware of the look and feel of your breasts is called.
What is Breast Self-Awarness?
100
Do this for 30 minutes a day & decrease your risk by 18%.
What is taking a walk (moderate aerobic activity)?
200
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, the first is.
What is lung cancer?
200
Being overweight, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and the use of MHT are called
Potentially modifiable risk factors for breast cancer?
200
The most common type of breast cancer, making up 70% - 80% of all breast cancers diagnosed.
What is Invasive Ductal Carcinoma?
200
Lumps, skin thickness, skin dimpling, changes in color, an inverted nipple and nipple discharge.
What are potential signs and symptoms of breast cancer?
200
Women should limit this to 1 a day.
What is drinking alcohol (5 oz.wine, 12 oz.beer or 1-1/2 oz.liquor)?
300
There are almost 3 million of these in the United States.
What are breast cancer survivors?
300
The risk for breast cancer increases if you have this history
What is a personal and/or family history of breast cancer?
300
Women with this do not have cancer, but are at greater risk for developing invasive breast cancer.
What is Lobular Carcinoma in Situ?
300
From age 18 - 40, one of these shoud be done every 1 - 3 years.
What is a Clinical Breast Exam (CBE)?
300
Maintaining this, especially after menopause, will decrease your risk.
What is a healthy weight?
400
The most common risk factors for Breast Cancer.
What is being a woman and getting older.
400
These gene mutations may increase your risk of getting breast cancer by 55%-65% and 45%-47% respectively.
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations?
400
An aggressive and fast growing breast cancer in which cancer cells infiltrate the skin and lymph vessels of the breast.
What Inflammatory Breast Cancer?
400
The American Cancer Society recommends that women age 40 and older have one of these every year.
What is a mammogram?
400
During childbearing years, doing this has a protective effect against breast cancer.
What is breast feeding?
500
At age 60, the chance of getting breast cancer is
What is 3% or 1 out of 28?
500
This type of breast tissue may increase the risk of getting breast cancer.
What is having dense breast tissue?
500
Breast cancer cells that do not have estrogen, progesterone and Human epithelial growth factor (HER2/neu) receptors is called
What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer?
500
Women with dense breast tissue will get a letter in the mail stating that they may need
What are additonal screenig tests?
500
When you stop taking these for menopausal hot flashes & night sweats your risk of breast cancer decreases.
What is estrogen and progestin combination hormone replacement therapy?