Population Groups At Risk

Estimate and prevent the risk of developing breast cancer according to the population group you belong to:

The risk of developing breast cancer varies by population group:

  1. GENERAL POPULATION: Women with an average life expectancy of up to 80 years, without confirmed family and personal history:

  • 1 in 8 will develop breast cancer;

  • 1 in 200 will develop breast cancer by age 40;

  • 1 in 50 will develop breast cancer by age 50;

  1. INCREASED RISK GROUPS: Special population groups that are three times more likely to develop breast cancer compared to the general population.
Πληθυσμιακές ομάδες κινδύνου

INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH:

  • Positive personal history of breast cancer;
  • Atypical ductal epithelial hyperplasia or lobular atypia;
  • Positive 1st degree family history that increases the chance of developing breast malignancy by 20-25%;
  • Previous radiotherapy to the chest or mediastinum under the age of 30;
  • BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 gene mutation carrier;
  • Age over 60 years.

METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS - CLINICAL EXAMINATION

Incipient cancer is usually unpalpable or clinically silent.

IMAGING STUDY

  • Preventive annual Mammogram, Diagnostic Mammogram, Breast Ultrasound or MRI;
  • These tests are applied depending on the case of each examinee;
  • Early diagnosis means finding malignancy before cancer cells have spread;
  • In this case, removal is equivalent to curing the disease.