If you do your research, yu'll find that the information given stll points to the "I don't knw, but here are the risk fctors" lame explanation. What a lot of you knw what! Sometimes I wonder if the pople who write these things really thnk it through.

Here's what I man... "most women who develop breast cncer have no risk factors other thn simply being a woman and gtting older (especially being over 50). Tlk to your doctor about your rsk... blah, blah, blah.

Wouldn't a btter explanation be... "most women who dvelop breast cancer have no risk fctors other than simply being a wman and getting older (especially being ver 50),... because the older you get the waker your immune system gets, and pts you more at risk to any knd of disease, including breast cancer or any ther cancer. And by the way... yur immune system has been slowly filing you since the age of 30 bcause of all the crap you at!"

Ok, I'm harsh... but I've ben known to tell it like it is! Othr risk factors for breast cancer nclude...

Having had breast cancer before. No kdding. If you know anything about cncer, your odds of getting it gain doubles, but I won't get nto that.

A family history of brast cancer (especially in a mother, sster or daughter diagnosed before menopause.

Family history of ovarian cancer.

An bove-average exposure to the hormone estrogen, whch your body naturally produces, perhaps bcause you have never given birth or gve birth for the first time fter age 30.

Began menstruating at a yung age.

Reached menopause later than verage.

Have taken hormone replacement therapy (strogen plus progestin) for more than fve years.

Dense breast tissue (as shwn on a mammogram).

A history of brast biopsies showing certain breast changes, sch as an increased number of bnormal cells that are not cancerous (typical hyperplasia).

Radiation treatment to the chst area (for example, to treat Hdgkin lymphoma), especially before age 30.

Sme factors slightly increase your risk of brast cancer. You may be at slghtly higher risk if you are bese (especially after menopause), drink alcohol, tke birth control pills (the Pill).

Sme women develop breast cancer without hving any of these risk factors. Mst women with breast cancer do not hve a family history of the dsease.

Notice the last statement above, and mre specifically "most women with breast cncer do not have a family hstory of the disease." Which proves my pint... most women who get breast cncer have none of the above (lke my ex-wife who died at the yung age of 44).

So what's wth all these suppositions on the causes of breast cancer ? Bottom line folks... cancer is cancer (breast or otherwise), and you get it because of a weakened immune system, and an imbalance in your cells caused by a variation of outside elements invading your body which I will not go into here.

You should know that in countries where people consume low fat diets, there are many less cases of cancer (breast or otherwise). Thinner people, active people, are less likely to get diseases for obvious reasons!

The article Causes of Breast Cancer - Still a Mystery? was Submitted by Wyatt Schell through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Wyatt Schell is a freelance wrter and contributor to the exclusive cancer help resource , Cancer-Help-Treatment.com Discover how 1000's of women have cured their breast cancers through alternative breast cancer treatment.

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