Breast Cancer

Both men and women may experience hot flashes and sweating from their cancer or cancer treatment. In people with cancer, hot flashes are most commonly associated with lower hormone levels from breast cancer or prostate cancer treatment.

If you've been diagnosed with cancer, you already know something has gone wrong inside your body's cells. But how do you know if the genetic changes that caused your cancer were something you inherited or something that just happened sometime during the course of your life? Kara Milliron is a genetic counselor with the U-M Rogel Cancer Center's Breast and Ovarian Risk Evaluation Program and shares what patients should know.