Brca2 Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Having a BRCA2 mutation makes you more susceptible to melanoma, for example, so you would need to take extra precautions to protect yourself from harmful sun exposure, including wearing sunblock and sun-protective clothing when outdoors.

Sue Friedman

#3. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

Angelina Jolie

#4. Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

Max Von Sydow

#5. What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living ... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Barry Eisler

#6. All that was left was the voice inside, and I could hear it clearly. It didn't have to yell- it whispered, and said to me briefly, plainly, and kindly- what it had to say.

Gerard Way

#7. The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

Aimee Bender

#8. She did not trust herself not to kill him with the spoon.

Lauren Groff

#9. Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#10. Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alison Bechdel

#11. If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

Haruki Murakami

#12. All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

David Hockney

#13. I think that sometimes people misinterpret understand and acceptance and make it into something that it isn't.

Jessica Sorensen

#14. I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.

Fred Nicole

#15. Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

Alan Cohen