Breast cancer prevention?

Healthy Lifestyle: The best things you can do include avoiding estrogen-progesterone pills, smoking, and radiation exposure. Exercise, a healthy low-fat diet, and avoidance of alcohol will further reduce the risk. A summary of a recent epidemiological study can be found below: http://www.Medpagetoday.Com/meetingcoverage/sabcs/30072.

5 steps: 1. Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity increases your risk of breast cancer 2. Have babies and breast feed. These decrease your risk 3. Limit hormone therapy after menopause. 4. Decrease alcohol intake 5. Exercise - women who have regular physical exercise have a decreased risk of breast cancer.

Possible meds: Along with what the other doctors have said, if you are at a particularly high risk for breast cancer due to your family history, you may benefit from chemoprevention. This means taking tamoxifen or Raloxifene to reduce your risk, if your 5-year-risk of breast cancer is more than 1.66%. Your doctor can calculate your risk here: http://www.Cancer.Gov/bcrisktool/.