Eight Prevention Methods for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

There is a reason that every health care provider who does not know you asks immediately for your family history. Cancer in particular is affected by genetic risk. There are many different forms that you can find online that will help you understand your risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer given your family history, but you have to know it first.

Most people will know whether or not someone in their family has had breast or ovarian cancer, but knowing when exactly they were diagnosed and how old they were is the critical piece of information that might indicate your personal risk. The younger a person is at the time of diagnosis, the more likely it is that they have an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, and your relation to that person might be an indicator of what age you might develop the same cancer.