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To: Clemenza
Jewish women are disproportionately well endowed, compared to ladies of other stripes.

Unfortunately -- and I hate to ruin the fun of the thread here -- Jewish women also have very high rates of breast cancer. Ashkenazic Jews (from Central/Eastern Europe), anyway.

We're kind of a genetically messed up bunch. High rates of colon, ovarian cancers too. Shows what all that inbreeding does to you.

Having had a mother who died of breast cancer, I'd be very reluctant to push implants on those who are high risk.

30 posted on 03/22/2007 1:23:57 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

Many Jewish (and non-Jewish as well) women have the BRCA abnormalities in their genes and it gives them a VERY high risk of early breast cancer. Some women who are positive for this gene have their breast tissue removed and have implants done. I work with a half-Jewish woman in her mid-thirties who did exactly that. In some of these high risk BRCA gene types, ovarian cancer goes with breast. I hope you had the genetic testing done.


34 posted on 03/22/2007 3:17:04 AM PDT by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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