Age
The risk of getting breast cancer increases with age. A woman is more than 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer in her 60s than in her 20s. If all women lived to age 95, about one in eight would be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point during their lives. However, the actual lifetime risk is lower than that, because 90% of women die before age 95, most commonly from heart attacks, strokes, or other forms of cancer.
The probability of breast cancer increases with age, but breast cancer tends to be more aggressive in younger people.
Read more about this topic: Risk Factors For Breast Cancer
Famous quotes containing the word age:
“Old age grows cold to love.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“This ... is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
“One age is like another for the soul.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)