Most researchers agree that there are at least 10 areas that must be conquered in the field of breast cancer treatment. Those areas include identifying lifestyle changes that could enable women to protect themselves from the disease to better understanding how tumors grow and spread to other parts of the body.
Research funded by the Breast Cancer Campaign has already shown that women who eat a high calorie diet in their mid-30s to mid-40s can end up with dense breast tissue in their 50s, which puts them at higher risk of breast cancer. The campaign estimates that if individual risk can be better identified by 2025, up to 20% of all breast cancers could be prevented.
