Each October, a wealth of information on breast cancer circulates online, in print and on television. Unfortunately, much of the information can be contradictory and confusing to the average person.
But experts say understanding the disease, which will strike 1 in 8 women over the course of her lifetime, isn†t as difficult as it may seem.

Who’s at Risk?
Although it’s often the faces of young women diagnosed with breast that tend to be the focus during the month of October, Dr. Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families, said that women over the age of 50 are still most at risk for the disease