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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 12/11/06, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
> But what I find unfathomable is the hot and quick defense of the role of
> genetics in something like ovarian cancer and yet an activity that increases 
> the
> odds of contracting and dying from the disease by 50% is dismissed lightly
> rather than an abstenance from it being championed.
I've known a few people who've had ovarian cancer. I understand that
being fat, not eating vegetables, and smoking raise your odds of
getting the disease, but these women were slim, in fairly good shape,
and had never smoked. I don't know about their vegetable consumption.
The one who was in very good shape is still alive, twenty years after
diagnosis (she was 40 when the cancer was found).

Marie