Open AccessPriorities for the primary prevention of breast cancer
Author(s) -
Colditz Graham A.,
Bohlke Kari
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/caac.21225
Subject(s) - breast cancer , primary prevention , medicine , cancer prevention , cancer , secondary prevention , family medicine , oncology , gynecology , disease
Despite recent calls to intensify the search for new risk factors for breast cancer, acting on information that we already have could prevent thousands of cases each year. This article reviews breast cancer primary prevention strategies that are applicable to all women, discusses the underutilization of chemoprevention in high‐risk women, highlights the additional advances that could be made by including young women in prevention efforts, and comments on how the molecular heterogeneity of breast cancer affects prevention research and strategies. CA Cancer J Clin 2014;64:186–194. © 2014 American Cancer Society.