MICROBIO 160 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Term Test Notes - Microbiology, Cancer, List Of Being Human Characters

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICROBIO 160
• Professor: Mitchell Walkowicz

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1 in every 8 us women will develop breast cancer. Best way to avoid death by breast cancer is early detection through mammography. Mammography is now so sensitive it can differentiate metastatic breast cancer, which needs to be treated, from variations of breast cancer that can be left untreated. This saves patients/ hospitals money and also helps prevent patients from going through unnecessary surgeries such as mastectomy. Incidence rate is highest in white women, but death rate is highest in. Occur in men, just at a lower rate than women. As a person ages, more mutations in a gene are likely to occur. United states, europe, japan , australia, etc. 75% of cases originate from spontaneous gene mutation rather than inheritance. Drugs that raise estrogen levels also raise the chance of developing breast cancer. Take home: you should be screened on a regular basis.