Breast cancer and risk does she have chance of cancer She is a 51-year-old,
pre-menopausal woman.
• Her last bilateral mammogram showed no evidence of a mass.
• She had her first period at the age of 13.
• She has had two pregnancies, each resulting in the birth of a child, the first of which was at age 32.
• She used oral contraceptives for six years.
• She has not taken any hormone-replacement therapy (HRT).
• She smoked until age 26.
• She consumes 1–4 alcoholic drinks per week.
• Her mother had breast cancer at 48 years of age, and now has lymphoma (at age 72).
• Her maternal grandmother had breast cancer at age 47, and died of lung cancer.
• Her paternal first cousin currently has breast cancer.
• Her paternal aunt died “at a young age” from breast cancer.
• Her father was of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, and died of colon cancer at 66 years of age.