Other factors include a family history, BRCA genes, older age, weight, excessive radiation, late menopause, alcohol, race, and more.

Genetic factors play a role in this timing: If your mother and other close relatives had an early or late menopause, you probably will too.

Instead it appears to have links with early first menstruation, late first motherhood and late menopause - all of which are associated with a high standard of living.

Breast cancer risk increases with early menarche and late menopause, and is reduced by early first full-term pregnancy.

In the general population, breast cancer risk increases with early menarche and late menopause, and is reduced at early first full-term pregnancy.

"I went through menopause late and uneventfully," she says.

A. Early menarche and late menopause seems to increase the risk for breast cancer.

Among these factors are obesity, a high-fat diet, and reproductive factors such as nulliparity, polycystic ovarian syndrome, early menarche, and late menopause.

Risk factors include postmenopausal estrogen therapy, obesity, a high-fat diet, reproductive factors like nulliparity, early menarche and late menopause, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and tamoxifen use.

Reproductive factors resulting in increased duration of exposure to endogenous estrogen, such as early menarche, nulliparity, and late menopause, are associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer.