The risk factors of breast cancer causes can be modifiable and non-modifiable. Read the non-modifiable risk factors of breast cancer. The modifiable risk factors are related to lifestyle and can be addressed by women. As, these are modifiable, it is possible to reduce risk of developing breast cancer by modifying the risk factors in your favor. Your effort to prevent/reduce risk of breast cancer development should be concentrated towards modifying the modifiable risk factors of breast cancer causes, in your favor and reduce the risk. Nothing can be done with the non-modifiable factors, except screening for breast cancer regularly (yearly) to detect breast cancer as early as possible.

What are the modifiable risk factors of breast cancer?

The modifiable risk factors of breast cancer causes are the number of children, alcohol consumption, breast feeding, obesity, physical activity, hormone replacement therapy after menopause, use of DES (diethylstilbestrol) and use of oral contraceptive pills (OC pills).

1. Breast Cancer Awareness: The Non-modifiable Risk Factors
2. Know about Advantages of Breast Feeding
3. Health Benefits of Breastfeeding for Mother

1. Know about Advantages of Breast Feeding
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The commonest site of mesothelioma is the pleura, which is the outermost lining of the lungs and the chest wall. But mesothelioma can occur at any site where mesothelial cells lining is present like peritoneum, heart etc.

1. Cancer: a General understanding
2. Causes of cancer
3. The Global Magnitude of the Problem of Cancer

For a disease, the relationship of incidence to mortality rate is an indication of prognosis. Similar incidence and mortality rate is indication of essentially fatal condition. That is why lung cancer accounts for most deaths from cancer (1.1 million) in the world annually, because its incidence and mortality rate is similar and it is invariably associated with poor prognosis. On the other hand for breast cancer appropriate management can be effective in avoiding fatal out come. That is why although it is second in term of incidence but in terms of mortality it is ranked 5^th .

1. Causes of cancer
2. Cancer control (Primary Prevention)
3. Cancer control (Secondary prevention)

The basic approach to the control of cancer is through primary prevention and secondary prevention. It is estimated that at least one third of all cancers are preventable. If we analyze the causes of cancer it is seen that environmental factors are the most important in causation of cancer which are modifiable. Genetic factors which are not modifiable are responsible in small number of cases of cancer.

1. Causes of cancer
2. Cancer: a General understanding
3. Effects of Air Pollution

1. Environmental factors: Environmental factors are responsible for at least 90 per cent of all human cancers. The major environmental factors identified include the following:

a. Tobacco: Tobacco in various forms of usage (e.g. smoking, chewing, sniffing) is the major environmental cause of cancers of lungs, larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas and also kidney. It has been estimated that cigarette smoking is responsible for more than one million premature deaths every year throughout the world in the form of cancer, respiratory problems and also in many other way. There is hardly any organ system which is not affected adversely due to cigarette smoking.

1. Cancer: a General understanding
2. Prevent Cancer by Healthy Eating
3. Environment and Health: Broad Perspective