Mums get cancer call

MUMS should teach daughters as young as 12 how to detect breast cancer.

The McGrath Foundation has urged mothers to pass on the knowledge to ensure young women do not fall prey to common myths about the disease.

The McGrath Breast Health Index outlined new risk factors after evidence emerged that being overweight after menopause, taking the contraceptive pill, not being active, a previous breast condition and using hormone replacement therapy increased the risk of breast cancer.