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title: "Breast cancer - Sapience Financial"
description: "Understand the likelihood of developing breast cancer and how personal factors, family history, and lifestyle choices play a role. Find out about the significant decrease in work hours during treatment."
url: "https://mail.sapience.com.au/cost-burden-of/breast-cancer"
date: "2026-05-26T18:22:53+00:00"
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- [ breast cancer ](https://mail.sapience.com.au/all-tags/breast-cancer)

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## Breast cancer

Aside from age, most people diagnosed with breast cancer don’t have any known risk factors.

#### What’s the risk?

In general, the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer by age 85 years is about 1 in 8. However, certain risk factors such as personal factors, family history and lifestyle can increase the chances of getting cancer. For example, the likelihood of a woman with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation being diagnosed with breast cancer by age 80 years is 69% to 72%.

- The medium hours worked per week in paid employment across the household decreases by about 50% during breast cancer treatment.

 ![breast cancer cost to care sapience financial](https://mail.sapience.com.au/images/cost-to-care/breast-cancer-cost-to-care-sapience-financial.svg)

![breast cancer out of pocket costs sapience financial](https://mail.sapience.com.au/images/cost-to-care/breast-cancer-out-of-pocket-costs-sapience-financial.svg)

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