Posted on 07/17/2004 3:04:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I wonder if ovarian cancer, like so many cancers, has genetic markers? I wonder if women who are destined to develop ovarian cancer are less fertile than other women?
I do agree with this premise of studying the effects of procreation on cancer of reproductive organs. However, I think so many other factors need to be introduced, too - such as the difference in cancer stats between women who gave birth to many children by the same father vs those whose broods were fathered by several different men.
Woo hoo! My son was born when I was 37!
Ping!
Sounds like a great opening line!
I suspect what's going on here is that this story made the headlines because it fits a template which reporters/editors like to see: Good News For The Working/Independent Woman. "It's GREAT to wait to have babies later in life", the article seems to say.The UK article reveals that these headlines are misleading and perhaps evidence of wishful thinking - because look at this:
"The researchers also found that women who gave birth before the age of 30 had a 45 per cent lower risk"
Oops... in other words, have babies sooner not later.
I wondered the same the moment I read the headline. With Australia going so far as to encourage procreation (the US offering a cool $10K taxcut for those willing to purchase kids from the Chicoms or various former Soviets), I think the same Interested Parties who've for so long "educated" us to the benefits of the Pill and safety of abortion now are interested in the Educated Reader's squeezing off another taxpayer or two.
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