Southern Chile
There is
nothing cute or light-hearted that I can think of to ease us into this topic. Get up the link given below and read a very
informative discussion of the role of genetics in all sorts of cancers, including OVCA. Then search
your memory for evidence that a member of your family has undergone a bout with
any form of cancer (you can skip the skin cancers, except for melanoma). If you find such a relative, seriously
consider getting your genes sequenced – by a reputable lab, under the
supervision of an oncologist or genetics counselor. Costs for such procedures have sharply
diminished but are still high, I am
afraid. But the result may well be
worth it. I impatiently await the day
when an enlightened society routinely scans the genome of every baby at
birth. Expensive, yes, but worth it - to
my way of thinking.
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