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Line 9: − + + − − This concept of risk should be put into the context of other risks, since life is full of risks. A woman's risk of dying of breast cancer is similar to her risk from radon by living in Cornwall, England, <ref> http://www.cplusc.co.uk/risks.html </ref> a factor which does not seem to have denuded Cornwall of its female population. − − The National Breast Cancer Coalition does not endorse the view that induced abortions increase the risk of breast cancer. Nor do the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organisation endorse this view. This would seem to be borne out by the experience of the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is illegal, and yet it has one of the highest rates of both breast cancer incidence and mortality in the EU. <ref> http://www.allirelandnci.org/pdf/publications/Stat-Report-1998-2000/4a.pdf </ref> − − A higher risk factor for breast cancer than abortion, recent research reveals, is the eating of red meat. <ref> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/04/04/nmeat04.xml</ref>
again added abortion and removed silly radon and red meat claims, and removed views of politicized organizations; reinsertion will result in locking of page
* diet <ref> http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0104023.htm </ref>
* diet <ref> http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0104023.htm </ref>
* racial grouping, <ref> http://www.womenshealthnetwork.org/advocacy/wocbreastca/natam.htm </ref>
* racial grouping <ref> http://www.womenshealthnetwork.org/advocacy/wocbreastca/natam.htm </ref>
* obesity <ref> http://society.guardian.co.uk/cancer/story/0,,686105,00.html </ref>
* obesity <ref> http://society.guardian.co.uk/cancer/story/0,,686105,00.html </ref>
* [[abortion]]
* family history if such a history involves having several generations affected by breast cancer or having many relatives diagnosed with breast cancer at less than 50 years old <ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
* family history if such a history involves having several generations affected by breast cancer or having many relatives diagnosed with breast cancer at less than 50 years old <ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
* prolonged uninterrupted exposure to estrogen (e.g. by having an early [[menarche]] and late [[menopause]] or by having no full-term pregnancies).<ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
* prolonged uninterrupted exposure to estrogen (e.g. by having an early [[menarche]] and late [[menopause]] or by having no full-term pregnancies).<ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
* age: increasing age increases the risk that at some point in her life a woman will contract breast cancer, rising from 1 in 231 (0.5% risk) aged under 40 to 1 in 7 at age 90. <ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
* age: increasing age increases the risk that at some point in her life a woman will contract breast cancer, rising from 1 in 231 (0.5% risk) aged under 40 to 1 in 7 at age 90. <ref> http://www.breastcancer.org/cmn_who_indrisk.html </ref>
==Ways of reducing the risk==
==Ways of reducing the risk==