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Re: Cancer Risk
From: Maggie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 2 May 2002 10:07:50 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 1 May 2002, TJ wrote: >
>I have a question about cancer. I am wondering about my own risk
>factors for breast or ovarian cancer, because older relatives have had
>these diseases. However, the relatives were my grandmother and her two
>sisters, my great aunt. These women also had bladder and colon cancer
>(I think).
>
>This was my paternal grandmother. My mother has never had any
>gynecologic illnesses, that I know of, nor has her mother. And I have
>no sisters.
>
>So I'm wondering, since no immediate members of my family have had
>cancer, am I safe, or reasonably so?

No, since your grandmother and great aunts had it. It's not necessarily genetic, but it doesn't help it your relatives have had cancer. As long as you're having mammograms regularly, you should be ok. You can also request hte CA 125 test to test for ovarian cancer. Just keep in mind that it's not so accurate.
>
>I have been told that women who have never been pregnant are at greater
>risk of ovarian and uterine cancer. Is this true?
>

Yes. Ovarian and uterine cancer risks decrease if you have children.
>
>--
>TJ
>

-- Maggie Beth Anderson Medical Student at University of Washington

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