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Breast Cancer

Causes and Risk Factors

  • Race can be a factor. White women are at greater risk than black women. However, black women diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to die of the disease.
  • Five percent to 10 percent of all breast cancers are thought to be inherited.
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