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There is much evidence showing the influence of life style and environmental factors on the development of mammary gland cancer (high-fat diet, alcohol consumption, lack of physical exercise), the elimination of which (primary prevention) may contribute to a decrease in morbidity and mortality.
Breast cancer prevention: How to reduce your risk. Breast cancer prevention starts with healthy habits — such as limiting alcohol and staying physically active. Learn what you can do to lower your breast cancer risk. By Mayo Clinic Staff
Breast cancer prevention strategies include avoiding known risks, having a healthy lifestyle, and medications or surgery for those at high risk. Learn more about breast cancer prevention, risks and protective factors, and how to estimate risk in this expert-reviewed summary.
Exercising regularly and keeping a healthy weight can help lower your risk of breast cancer. Many factors over the course of a lifetime can influence your breast cancer risk.
Current strategies to decrease a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer include primary prevention, such as avoiding tobacco, exogenous hormone use and excess exposure to ionizing radiation, maintaining a normal weight, exercise, breastfeeding, eating a healthy diet and minimizing alcohol intake.
An RCT of primary prevention of breast cancer compared exemestane with placebo in 4,560 women with at least one risk factor (age >60 years, a Gail 5-year risk >1.66%, or a history of DCIS with mastectomy).
There is no sure way to prevent breast cancer. But there are things you can do that might lower your risk. This can be especially helpful for women with certain risk factors for breast cancer, such as having a strong family history or certain inherited gene changes.
Here, we review investigational preclinical and clinical approaches at a systemic and local level that focus on non-modifiable breast cancer risk-reducing interventions. One in eight women will develop breast cancer in the US.
It is important for primary prevention to include reducing modifiable risk factors, such as obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and a poor diet. Each of these factors can have various effects, depending on breast tissue type and age (premenopausal and menopausal).
This article reviews breast cancer primary prevention strategies that are applicable to all women, discusses the underutilization of chemoprevention in high-risk women, highlights the additional advances that could be made by including young women in prevention efforts, and comments on how the molecular heterogeneity of breast cancer affects pre...