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On April 7, 2015, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Yoshihiro Takashima, MD1, W. William Schluter, MD1, Kayla Mae L. Mariano1, Sergey Diorditsa, MD1, Maricel de Quiroz Castro2, Alan C.

Tonya R. Williams, PhD1, Suhana Alam, MPH1, Marcus Gaffney, MPH1 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Mary Parham1, Laura Edison2,3, Karl Soetebier2, Amanda Feldpausch2, Audrey Kunkes2, Wendy Smith2, Taylor Guffey2, Romana Fetherolf4, Kathryn Sanlis3, Julie Gabel2, Alex Cowell2, Cherie Drenzek2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Learning your family history of cancer, from both your mother’s and father’s sides, can help you know if you have a higher risk for getting breast or ovarian cancer at a young age.

Certain family history patterns indicate a higher risk for a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation.

A list of possible breast cancer symptoms.

Table I   Provisional cases of selected infrequently reported notifiable diseases (<1,000 cases reported during the preceding year) — United States, week ending March 28, 2015 (12th Week).

Teen births continue to decline in the U.S., but still more than 273,000 infants were born to teens ages 15 to 19 in 2013. Childbearing during the teen years can carry health, economic, and social costs for mothers and their children.