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Health Tip: Can ovarian cancer be detected at an early stage?
By Mike Alexander Sr.

Mike is involved with several organizations including the National Association of Health Underwriters, Independent Insurance Agents Association, East End Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau and the National Association of Small Business Owners, to name a few. Mike is a licensed Risk Manager and highly regarded in the insurance industry.

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As an insurance executive one of my biggest goals is to keep people healthy. That's great for the client, my companies, and for the economy in general. With that, I'm continuously looking for quality information that you can use in order to stay healthy.

In a recent Health Tip, we learned about measures to reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer. As with many other diseases, there are factors beyond anyone's control that can lead to its occurrence.

These non-modifiable risk factors include age, infertility and presence of a gene mutation (BRCA1 or BRCA2). On the positive side, maintaining an ideal body/mass index, taking progesterone along with estrogen in women with intact ovaries who require hormone replacement therapy, and undergoing genetic screening in those with a strong family history of ovarian cancer, offers some opportunity to avoid its ....Click here to sign up to eDocAmerica and read more of this article.