Could half of all breast cancers be prevented?

"We really need to go back and work at breast cancer prevention starting at a young age," Dr. Graham Colditz, associated director for prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University in St. Louis, a co-author of the report, told Reuters Health. "Women need to have better access to understanding how breast cancer risk accumulates and how these lifestyle factors add up over the years to increase risk," he said. In addition to researching effective treatments and methods of catching cancers early, Colditz and his Washington University colleague Dr. Kari Bohlke argue that more emphasis should be on using what's already known about what raises breast cancer risk. Strategies for preventing breast cancer have received "far less attention" than efforts to improve treatment and early detection of the disease, Colditz and Bohlke write.



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