Chronic Disease

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Breast cancer is a disease which is found in a breast. This disease can be deadly if you don’t catch it in time, but it can also be cured if you catch it in time and go through stages like radiation and kimo therapy. The cause of breast cancer has still not been detected but they do know and can tell who is at a higher risk than others. Risk factors are the things that can affect your chances of getting this disease. Some of them are controllable and some aren’t. Risk factors that you can’t control are family history which is when someone in your family such as your mother, sister or child has had it. Genetics is another factor that you can’t control because it’s something that runs in your family. A few other risk factors that you can’t control is your environmental exposure your past and present behavior. Risk factors that you can control is your diet and exercise, if you’re making sure that your eating healthy which is fruits, vegetables and things to that your chances of getting breast cancer are lower than most. Exercising is another factor that you can control, by doing some type of physical activity every day for at least thirty (30) minutes to an hour, this includes walking, running anything that has to do with you moving around physically. Another factor that you can control is your environmental exposure which is the people that smoke cigarettes and have any kind of contact with any tobacco and chemicals. Doctors say that just because you have similarities to the risk factors that doesn’t mean that you have it or even may get it, it just means that you need to need take precaution and take care of yourself physically in order to prevent getting this disease. Lifestyle choices you can make in your life to decrease your modifiable risk factors for this disease is to simply watch what you eat and drink. Try not to get too carried away on fatty foods and alcohol because are the things that can make you catch this disease. If you are someone that has been...