Quotes About Risk Reduction

#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. There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#3. Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Bill Vaughan

#4. Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.

Kristi Funk

#5. The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of 'Grain Brain.'

David Perlmutter

#6. Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#7. A priest's life is spent between question and answer
or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#8. Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Sarah Dessen

#9. We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

Robert Benchley

#11. Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all.

Robyn Schneider

#13. I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Woody Allen

#14. I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

Spike Jonze

#15. The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#16. Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

Pearl S. Buck