
Today, breast cancer is the most common of all cancers in American women. It causes more deaths in Hispanic women than any other cancer and killed a total of 41,491 women in the United States in 2005. These numbers won’t go down with around 80,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed every year.
There are many different factors that can put a woman at risk for breast cancer. Although women can’t control all of these factors, there are several preventative measures that can be taken to reduce one’s risk. Few of these preventive measures are as follows;