Who is at risk for developing breast and uterine cancer?

Dr. Michael Roizen, MD

Internal Medicine

Members of higher-risk categories for breast and uterine cancers include women who are overweight by 40 pounds or more; women who are either childless or were over twenty-nine at the time of their first childbirth; and women who have one or two direct family members (mother, sister, daughter) who had breast cancer before the age of forty.

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