An Ounce of Prevention... How to Do Self-Exams Knowledge of your body is key to good health. If you don't know what you normally feel like, you won't be able to recognize signs of illness or infection. This also applies to our reproductive and genital health. Vaginal and breast self-exams help us to feel more comfortable with our bodies and gives us a baseline of how we look and feel when we're ...

Breast Cancer Genes and Inheritance Viviana Rivera-Varas Copyright 1998 Breast cancer is the most common cancer that affects women in the United States. There are at least two majors genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) that when they mutate can cause breast cancer. These genes can be passed from parent to child, increasing the risk of developing cancer in those child that have parent carrying these genes.

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