Medical School Pathology: Breast Cancer Risk Factors

There has been a lot of research on breast cancer and there are abundant details about nuances of different prognostic factors, risk factors and morphologic variants. This video for medical students focuses on the basics, a solid foundation of the information you need to know in your preclinical years. Those of you who proceed on to become breast pathologists, breast surgeons, medical/radiation oncologists will have much more to learn! This video covers biologic risk factors for invasive carcinoma as well as cultural/environmental factors. There is a brief discussion at the end to address the increased risk of triple negative breast cancer in African American women.