Breast cancer and cancer related diseases have been treated
using surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, or a combination
of these. But despite these therapeutic options, cancer
remains associated with high mortality [10]. This is basically
due to difficulties in early diagnosis, exorbitant cost of treatment,
with the often late presentation of breast cancer that
generally characterizes cancer diagnosis among Nigerian and
other African women [10–13]. Owing to these several shortcomings,
there is a need for better therapeutic options which
will increase the chances of survival of breast cancer patients
with minimal or no side effects of treatment. Early diagnoses
of breast cancer and its prevention have been suggested as a
better means of managing breast cancer because about 5%
of human breast cancers have been attributed to inheritance
of breast cancer susceptibility genes [2,14]. Therefore, people
with familial history of breast cancer have better options of
diagnosing and preventing its occurrence within their life time