Damascus-SANA
To reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, doctors and researchers advise women to maintain a normal weight, exercise and limit hormonal therapy after menopause, abstain from alcohol, and eat a healthy plant-based diet.
In the event that the woman has a family history of the same disease, the mother, the sister, or she has risk factors, such as the presence of precancerous breast changes, which increase the risk of breast cancer, this woman can discuss with the doctor to take medical measures to reduce the risk of breast cancer, including:
Use of preventive estrogen-inhibiting medications such as selective estrogen receptor modulators and aromatase inhibitors that reduce the risk of infection.
To be sure, these medications have a risk of side effects, so doctors prescribe them to women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, so you should discuss the benefits and risks of these medications with your doctor.
Also, some women who are at a high risk of developing breast cancer, after consulting a doctor, resort to a preventive surgery, which is the removal of the healthy breasts and prophylactic mastectomy, and they can also choose to remove the healthy ovaries (prophylactic oophorectomy) to reduce the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
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