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Breast cancer is the second-deadliest cancer in women.
Risk factors include increasing age, close relatives with breast cancer and history of noninvasive breast cancer. The risk for breast cancer increases as we get older. Women who carry a baby to full term in their early 20s have a lower risk of breast cancer than women who have later first pregnancies or who have no children. Osteoporosis is a disease of the skeleton caused by an imbalance in the body's bone-rebuilding cycle, resulting in bone loss. Menopause is one of the great risk factors for developing osteoporosis.