Kristi Funk Quotes About Breast Cancer

• The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. Much more than just family history and inherited genes factor into the breast cancer equation.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, People, Facts

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• About 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breasts

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• 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%.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, Risk, Age

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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