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When women are pregnant, or breast feeding, or taking birth control pills, they are not ovulating, and they are therefore at reduced risk of ovarian cancer. This is further true if you have breastfed more than one baby, and if you have had children when you were younger, rather than older. When women are given ovulation inducing medications they may be slightly increasing their risk. Patients worried about starting infertility treatments often express this concern to me. Studies have varied in their interpretation of breast and ovarian cancer risk for the infertility patient. Most women don't ovulate too many 'extra' times with just a few short months of infertility ovulation treatment, so ovarian cancer not regarded as an actual consequence of fertility enhancing ovulation treatment, and that is what we routinely tell our patients. In fact if a woman has an ovarian cyst, we don't normally stop infertility treatments. But as we still see breast cancer as the most com...

1. Mass in the breast 2. Skin changes of the breast 3. Sudden difference in the breast appearance 4. Bloody nipple discharge 5. Lymph nodes under arms 6. Lymph nodes above your collar bone 7. Redness of the skin 8. Distorted feature of the breast like it now appearing asymmetrical 9. Breast Pain 10. Mass attached to the skin of the breast