Background: Prophylactic or 'risk-reducing' mastectomy refers to the procedure of completely removing a healthy breast in order to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer.
Importance: Menopause, due to loss of ovarian follicular activity without another pathological or physiological cause, typically occurs between the ages of 45 years and 56 years.
Compared with women treated with whole-breast irradiation, those treated with brachytherapy experienced a twofold increased risk for losing their breasts,...
Knowing how dramatically genetic mutations can influence cancer risk so researchers investigated whether there is a gene on the X chromosome that influences the risk of developing ovarian cancer.
In this update review, we highlight the major risk factors related to breast cancer investigated in women over the last 5 years. Thus, we clarify the involvement of these risk factors in the occurrence and growth of breast cancer.