Research shows that mothers who breastfeed have a lower risk of developing pre and postmenopausal breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the world, but have a good prognosis if detected and treated early.

Estrogen receptor positive is the most common form of breast cancer – around 80% of breast cancers are ER-positive.

Breast cancer cells that do not have estrogen receptors are known as estrogen-receptor-negative (or ER-negative) cancers.

People who have had breast cancer in the past are at higher risk for developing other types of cancers. Learn more about why.

Women with large, dense breasts who undergo repeated mammography may be at higher risk for radiation-induced breast cancer.