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Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Roche lists eight signs of breast cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide annual campaign involving thousands of organizations, to highlight the importance of breast awareness, education and research.

As it is nearly end of October, we want to remind you to stay informed and aware of this disease during whole year, because many women can survive breast cancer if it’s found and treated early. Here are the main risk factors that you should be aware of:

1. Gender – being a woman is the biggest risk factor for developing breast cancer. Breast cancer is second most common kind of cancer in women.

2. Getting older – the older the person the higher the risk, more than 80% of breast cancers occur in women over the age of 50. If you are a woman age 40 to 49, talk with your doctor about when to start getting mammograms and how often to get them. If you are a woman age 50 to 74, be sure to get a mammogram every 2 years. You may also choose to get them more often. Most men who get breast cancer are over 60.

3. Significant family history – this isn’t common, around 5% of people diagnosed with breast cancer have inherited a faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. Talk to a doctor about your risk for breast cancer, especially if a close family member of yours had breast or ovarian cancer. Your doctor can help you decide when and how often to get mammograms

Roche lists eight signs of breast cancer you might not know about:

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