These are the most commonly mutated genes in breast cancer.
What are BRCA1, BRCA2, p53.
100
This should be done monthly from the age of 20 in order to check for breat cancer.
What is a BSE (Breast Self Examination)?
100
This treatment is used often after breast-conserving surgery to help lower the chance that the cancer will come back in the breast or nearby lymph nodes.
What is radiation?
200
This number of women are diagnosed per year in the US with breast cancer.
What is 200,000?
200
These are the most common sites where breast cancer originates.
What are lobules and ducts?
200
The age at which women should have yearly mammograms.
What is 40 years old?
200
This first line therapy has side effects including anemia, diarrhea, fatigue, hair changes, and weight changes.
What is chemotherapy?
300
This percentage of MEN get breast cancer.
What is less than 1% but not 0%.
300
These are the two broad categories of breast cancer type.
What are invasive and noninvasive?
300
These are preventable behaviors that greatly increase your risk of breast cancer.
What are smoking, drinking and obesity?
300
This is performed often for women who have had prior radiation therapy, multiple tumors of larger size, and a strong family history of breast cancer.
What is mastectomy?
400
This number of women die of breast cancer per year.
What is 40,000.
400
This stage of breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body.
What is Stage 4.
400
This ethnicity is at a higher risk for breast cancer than women of other ethnicities.
What is Ashkenazi Jewish?
400
This procedure is a method for determining if the cancer has spread.
What is an axillary node dissection?
500
This percentage of breast cancer cases occur above the age of 40.
What is 95%.
500
These are the most common sites of metastasis.
What are bone, brain, liver, and lung.
500
This ethnic group has a similar incidence rate but is more likely to die of breast cancer.
What is african american?
500
All women do not get the same hormonal treatment for breast cancer because of this.