Understanding Risk Factors
Fact Sheets

The Understanding Risk Factors collection explores risk factors, what they are, what they mean, how they are interpreted. Topics include:

• How cancer develops in the body.
• Estrogen
• Diet and lifestyle choices such as exercise, breast-feeding and hormone treatments.
• The role genes and DNA damage may play in breast cancer risk.
• Family history and breast cancer risk.

Note: Fact sheets are available in both text and PDF (Adobe Acrobat) versions. Text versions may not include all the tables and figures and may have slightly different formatting. If you want an exact copy of the original fact sheet, choose the PDF version. (To read PDF files, get the free Acrobat Reader.)

 Fact Sheets for Understanding Risk Factors

	No. 05		Biology of Breast Cancer		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 42		Body Type: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 43		Breast Cancer in Men		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 03		Breast Cancer Rates		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 29		Breast-feeding: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 08		Childhood Events: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 44		Diet/Lifestyle: Breast Cancer Survival		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 09		Estrogen: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 19		Exercise: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 48		Family History: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 40		Hormone Treatment: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 47		Racial/Ethnic Groups: Breast Cancer		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 52		Radiation: Breast Cancer Risk		Text | PDF | Bibliography
	No. 06		Tumor Suppressor Genes		Text | PDF | Bibliography

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Last Update 04.15.05

Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
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