|Articles|August 25, 2017

Five Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Author(s)Bright Pink

Women begin accumulating risk and establishing their lifestyle behaviors when they are young. What many don’t realize is that they have the power to be advocates for their health by reducing their risk or detecting these diseases at early, non-life-threatening stages.

Bright Pink, a national nonprofit focused on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer, outlines 5 actions that young women can take to influence their relative risk of breast and ovarian cancer.


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