creasing a woman's chance of getting breast cancer. Some factors such as age and gender cannot be changed, but others are related to the environment, which can be controlled by choice. Simply being a woman increases the risk because it is 100 times more common in women than in men. The risk of getting breast cancer also increases with age. About 77% of women diagnosed with breast cancer are over the age of 50. A family history of breast cancer can increase your chances of contracting the disease by about 2% to 7%. Recent studies have shown that about 10% of breast cancer cases result from a mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene. These genes normally help in preventing cancer cells that grow abnormally, however, over time these genes can mutate, increasing the risk of developing breast cancer. Women who start menstruating at an early age or who go through menopause at a later age have a slight
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