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Environmental Factors Can Impact Your Risk
Genes certainly play a role, but how you choose to live your life and what you decide to put into your body can have an impact on breast cancer risk, too.
Alcohol is the most obvious threat: drinking even one alcoholic beverage a day will raise your risk ever so slightly, while two or more can make you 1.5 times more likely to develop the disease. But alcohol is only part of the problem. Obesity has been shown to put you at risk (especially post-menopause), and if you’re an overweight drinker, you may be more vulnerable than you realize.
Resources
Everyday Health (10 Breast Cancer Facts You May Not Know)DoSomething.org (11 Facts about Breast Cancer)Susan G. Komen (Race and Ethnicity)National Cancer Institute (Obesity and Cancer Risk)Everyday Health (Dense Breasts and Breast Cancer Risk)Related Search Topics
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