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Home > Cost of Chronic Disease > Osteoporosis > Prevelance & Incidence of Osteoporosis
A woman's lifetime risk of hip fracture equals her combined risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer.
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Riggs, Lawrence B. and Joseph Melton. Osteoporosis, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment, Second Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven. 1995. [ Permalink ]