Unfortunately breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, and is considered that 1 in 9 women suffer from this disease. Most breast cancers are detected at a very early stage and current treatments make overall survival very high. For this reason when having some breast cancer history in the family, great care must be taken. Cases where family influence may have more relevance in the cancer inheritance are those cases with direct relatives (mother, sister, daughter), at young ages (under 40 years), or cases when a person has positive BRCA gene. Control of each of these patients with breast neoplasm family members should be individualized, and performed in accordance with genetic counseling.
