"Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%."

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Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

Kristi Funk

#Cancer Quotes #Risk Quotes #Age Quotes

“You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.”
“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”
“Traveling is like falling in love, the world is made new.”

Source : Jan Myrdal, Gun Kessle (1971). “Gates to Asia: a diary from a long journey”, Pantheon
“If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.”
“Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.”
“I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.”
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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