Sentences with phrase «strong women testing»

Niki Caro's films — from Whale Rider to the upcoming Nazi - era drama The Zookeeper's Wife have dealt with strong women testing their courage and strength.

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Receiving genetic tests, advanced imaging and having a strong fear that cancer would develop in their second breasts were tied to an increased likelihood that women would choose to have a preventive double mastectomy, researchers found.

Overall, 35 percent of women with breast cancer expressed a strong desire for genetic testing, but 43 percent of those women did not have a relevant discussion with a health care professional.

If a woman with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancers tests negative for the BRCA1 / 2 genes, that does not mean her relatives are not at risk, says Daly — her siblings could still carry the gene, or there could be additional genes present that predispose them to cancer that clinicians don't yet know how to test for.

Women also do better at maths tests if they are told that the test is designed to identify students with strong ability, rather than pinpoint those who are not very good.

The relationship between WCR and intraabdominal fat mass is stronger for intraabdominal SAT in younger women than men; but in menopausal women, the associations become more similar to the male patterns in cross-sectional analysis testing for sex and age differences (24).

At the Mayo Clinic, any woman with a strong family history of these cancers is first sent to a genetic counselor, who will put together a risk profile and recommend testing, Bakkum - Gamez said.

A woman with a strong family history of ovarian cancer who tests negative for a specific gene mutation is still at a higher risk for ovarian cancer.

Excepting stronger indications of academic test scores for general health and mental well - being for the earlier 1958 birth cohort, and of socioeconomic deprivation for the general health of women, differential associations of the childhood measures with adult health are not apparent by gender, or between the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts.

Spearman's rho correlations were small to medium between age and the physical tests for women p < 0.0001 and medium to strong correlation for men, but all significant p < 0.0001.