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Menopause and the risk of breast cancer. Menopause is confirmed only when a woman has not gone through her menstrual period for a period of 12 months. While menopause is a natural occurrence in women. In other ways, menopause is stated as the time during which the ovaries and female reproductive organs fail to produce eggs for fertilization. Estrogen is the hormone that plays a major role in fat metabolism in women by controlling blood cholesterol levels. After menopause, due to the impairment of the ovaries to make estrogen, only the fat tissues begin to produce estrogen. Hence, women who are overweight can develop elevated levels of estrogen. A few studies state that women being overweight or obese are at greater risk of getting breast cancer due to high levels of reproductive hormones involved in tumor growth.