Being a Woman
- This is the highest risk among breast cancer. Simply being a woman raises your chances of developing breast cancer.
- As an woman grows in age her chances go developing breast cancers gets higher.
- A woman chances of developing breast cancer are higher if someone close to her has the disease.
- Rare, however 10% of developed breast cancer are hereditary (comes from parents).
- Some women develop breast cancer in one breast, however this increase the chances she will develop cancer in opposite breast.
- In general, white women have a higher chance to develop breast cancer than other races. However, African America woman are more lightly to die because of it and Asian, Hispanic, and Native-American have a lower risk for both.