Quotes About Ovarian

#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. Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.

George Kaiser

#3. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#4. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

Linda Howard

#5. African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.

Frank C. Garland

#6. If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.

Lisa Jey Davis

#7. My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago.

Regina Taylor

#8. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#9. I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Pierce Brosnan

#10. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

Gilda Radner

#11. Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer.

Kristi Funk

#12. I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

Terry Tempest Williams

#13. I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Angelina Jolie

#14. BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#15. I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Andie MacDowell

#16. I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.

Nicole Kidman

#17. I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

Kathy Bates

#18. What is death but descending into a dark, eternal sleep?

B.L. Norris

#19. The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

Edgar Allan Poe

#22. I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.

Ashton Eaton

#23. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

Walt Whitman

#25. Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.

Robin S. Sharma

#26. Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.

Wynton Marsalis

#27. Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

Maud Lindsay

#28. I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Mandy Patinkin

#29. I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

David Sedaris

#30. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.

Lao-Tzu

#31. ...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success.

Kate Morton