Breast cancer affects every woman differently. It can also affect different groups and populations differently. For example, Jewish women of Ashkenazi descent (from Eastern Europe) have a higher risk than other groups of women for carrying abnormal BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
In this section we look at research on how breast cancer affects women in different populations, including African-American women, and older women (over 70).
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