October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we’d like to talk a bit about breast cancer risk factors and risk reduction. Studies have shown that breast cancer is due to a combination of factors and some of these – like getting older – are unavoidable. Some women have risk factors and never develop breast cancer, … Continue Reading
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