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Q: How common is breast cancer in postmenopausal women?
Hi Mary Lou - Breast cancer is a lot more common in older women than in younger women. At age 50 (more or less menopause age), your lifetime chance of developiing breast cancer is 1 in 50, and the risk continues to increase the older you get. Hope this answers your question - PJH
very common
I believe due to the drop in female Estrogen levels, the body doesn't cope well so it sends out wrong signals.
Don't know Iwas the first in my family to have it at age 65,
Extremely common. Both I and my mother have developed postmenopausal breast cancer.
very
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