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Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately one out of eleven to twelve women at some stage of their life in the Western world. Although significant efforts are made to achieve early detection and effective treatment, about 20% of all women with breast cancer will die from the disease, [citation needed] and it is the second most common cause of cancer in women.
It is important to have a model of causation of a disease in order to distinguish epidemiological risk factors or associations with disease, from the biological etiology and primary cause, secondary co-factors, and simple promoters of the disease given the underlying cause. By analogy in peptic ulcer disease, the cause is Helicobacter pylori, a co-factor is stomach acidity, a promoter may be aspirin which altogether produce a stomach ulcer. Each is a risk factor associated with disease, and one is the primary cause. The cause of breast cancer is not known.

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