Breast Cancer Facts.

1. Age : – The chances of developing breast cancer increase lots with age. Close to 80 percent of breast cancers occur in women older than age of 50's. In 30's, you have a one in 233 chances of developing breast cancer. By age 85, your chance is one in eight,
2.  Birth control pills : – Use of contraceptive pills are associated with an increased risk factor of breast cancer in premenopausal Womens. The risk appears to be greater for Womens who use birth control pills for seven or more years before their first full-term pregnancy,
   
3. Family history : – If you have a mother, sister or daughter with breast or ovarian cancer or both, or a male relative with breast cancer, you have a greater chance of also developing breast cancer,
4. A personal history of breast cancer : – If you’ve had breast cancer in one breast, you have an increased risk of developing cancer in the other breast, so this way your both the breasts are affected by cancer,
5. Smoking : – Evidence is mixed on the relationship between smoking and breast cancer risk. Some studies show no link between cigarette smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke and breast cancer,
6. Excessive use of alcohol : – Womens who are drinking more than one alcoholic beverage a day have about a 20 percent greater risk of breast cancer than do women who don’t drink. To reduce your breast cancer risk, limit alcohol to no more than one drink daily.