Question 1

can a guy touching your breasts cause breast cancer?

Accepted Answer

No: No correlation. Biggest risks are genetics and, in a complicated sense, hormonal. Be safe in the rest of your love life!

Question 2

can touching or rubbing your breasts cause breast cancer?

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I am not aware: Of any evidence to support or refute whether mechanical movement of your breast can cause breast cancer or not.

Question 3

does touching your boobs excessivley cause breast cancer?

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No.: In fact, touching your breasts frequently in the form of a self exam may help you find breast cancer at an earlier stage when it is more likely to be curable.

Question 4

can cigarette ash on breasts cause breast cancer? or ash particles from second- or third-hand cigarette smoke on breasts? or cigarette smoke itself?

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No/no/no: Breast cancer has no direct link to contact with cigarette ash or exposure to cigarette smoke.

Question 5

can breast cancer cause fainting?

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It can, indirectly.: If you just received the news of having breast cancer, the anxiety and stress associated with that can make your heart skip a beat and make you faint. Also, pain medication and chemotherapy regimens that patients with breast cancer sometimes receive can make one weak and dizzy.

Question 6

what causes (aggressive) breast cancer?

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Age, hormone status: The more response less aggressive breast cancers occur in older post menopausal women and when the tumor is examined it is ER(-), PR (-) HER2 (-).  Such tumors are associated with early spread and do not respond to estrogen blockage or the use of Hereceptin.

Question 7

what is the main cause of breast cancer?

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Good Question: But unfortunately there is no  one good answer , 99% of breast cancers are in woman only  1% in men , first fundamental woman are exposed repeated assaults by estrogen/progesterone  hormonal cycles , men are not. Beside genetic so many factors contribute to the genesis of breast , we all should hope some day we will find  exact  cure breast cancer , now only alternative is awareness , early detect.

Question 8

what causes breast cancer in young women?

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Possibly genetic: Breast cancer in younger women has a higher likelihood to be due to genetic abnormailties (so called brca1 and brca2 mutation). There are also many other familial or genetic abnormalities that are rarer. Many of the causes are still unknown. Check the following web page of myriad laboratory. It has a lot of useful information. https://www.myriad.com/
you may also check american cancer society's.

Question 9

help, what is the cause of breast cancer?

Accepted Answer

Cancer is from the: Abnormal proliferation of cells.

Question 10

what exactly is breast cancer? what causes it?

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Malignancy of breast: Breast cancer is a malignancy that most often develops in the duct cells of breast tissue.  Less frequently it appears from lobules at the terminal duct responsible for milk production.  The most common cause is environmental with a virus such as MMTV entering the Wnt-1 gene of the duct cell to produce B catenin which helps convert the cell, possibly with EBV to the malignant phenotype.

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