MEDICAL
BREAST
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Question
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Select all that are genetic factors of breast cancer ____
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If your mother, sister, father or child has been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer, you have a higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer in the future. Your risk increases if your relative was diagnosed before the age of 50.
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Early menstruation (before age 12), late menopause (after 55), having your first child at an older age, or never having given birth can also increase your risk for breast cancer.
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Having dense breast tissue can increase your risk for breast cancer and make lumps harder to detect.
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Breast cancer is diagnosed more often in Caucasian women than women of other races.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Although doctors don’t know what causes breast cancer, they do know there are factors linked to a higher-than average risk of developing the disease. Some of the factors associated with an increase in breast cancer risk-being a woman, your age, and your genetics, for example-can’t be changed.
Detailed explanation-2: -BRCA1 (BReast CAncer gene 1) and BRCA2 (BReast CAncer gene 2) are genes that produce proteins that help repair damaged DNA. Everyone has two copies of each of these genes-one copy inherited from each parent.
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