Breast cancer comes in types, receptor positive or negative and genetic associated or not. Learn how to talk about it and then use your knowledge to have a great discussion with your doctor.

1. FemaleMenopauseMentors.com Breast Cancer: Are you at Risk for a certain type? By Anne Vaillancourt PAC And Bruce L Bair PAC

3. Each type carries its own prognosis and potential for cure

5. Glandular Tissue

6. Fibrous Tissue

7. Fatty Tissue

8. Lymph tissue

9. Blood circulation

10. Menopause increases fat and decreases glands

12. Lobular Carcinoma in Situ or LCIS

13. Both have low potential to move (metastasize) to other tissue

15. 80% of all invasive breast cancers

16. Sub types of this one are:

17. Paget's Disease

19. Tough to see on mammogram

20. Inflammatory Breast Cancer 3%

21. In lymph ducts in skin, poor prognosis

24. Tests are done for 3 receptors on all cancerous breast tissue Estrogen, Progesterone and HER2

26. The receptors are for estrogen, progesterone or for

29. If a woman carries the BRCA1 or the BRCA2 genes

30. Not many women in the USA do

31. Those who do have an 80% chance of getting breast cancer

33. P53

34. PTEN

35. CHEK2

36. P53 gene is pictured

38. Talk to your medical provider about screening right for you

39. View our risk factor presentation

40. This has been a presentation of FemaleMenopauseMentors.com By Anne Vaillancourt PAC And Bruce L Bair PAC Come visit our site and tell us what you think and what you want to know. We can't be your medical provider but we can be a great source of personal and expert information.