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Can non-smokers get breast cancer?
If so how?
is it just as bad as a smoker getting it?Why?
Can it get past down from family members?
Is all this the same for all cancers?
what are the side effects of breast cancer/
Does it cause baldness?
Yes. Breast cancer has not so much to do with smoking (like lung- & throat cancer for example).
Yes about as bad, see above.
Yes you can inherit a risk of developing breast cancer.
No, cancers are different. It is different for different cancers.
I'm not sure what you mean by side effects here, please explain.
No in itself it does not cause baldness, but the therapy may cause hair loss.
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