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Can lifestyle changes impact breast cancer risk?

https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/lifestyle-and-risk
Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/well/live/how-to-lower-breast-cancer-risk.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

A recent New York Times article shared how “adopting protective living habits”  could help keep breast cancer “at bay”.  While many of these lifestyle changes and strategies like not smoking, avoiding weight gain, reducing alcohol consumption, eating a heart-healthy diet, and increasing physical activity have been shown to reduce breast cancer risk, there are other risk factors that one cannot control such as having a BRCA or other mutation that significantly increases breast cancer risk. Importantly, no one strategy has been proven to totally eliminate breast cancer risk. However many of these approaches have overall health benefits. (9/21/2017)

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