My Daily Domestic Clips 09/01/2010 (a.m.)

• Zac Bissonnette: How Student Debt Will Ruin Your Life tags: debt college
• Adam Daniels: Debt Sexy: Zac Bissonnette Makes Paying for College Look Good – Annotated tags: debt college
  • “I think there’s a problem in thinking that college has to be the best four
    years of your life,” Bissonnette said. “Well, if the best four years of your
    life puts you in so much debt that you can’t pursue the career that you want,
    you can’t have a family, you can’t buy a house, then that’s the worst four years
    of your life.”
    While you definitely won’t be able to follow every single piece of advice and
    save the more than $100,000 the back cover touts, the numerous take-aways make
    this book a worthwhile read. Whether you’re a B-average junior in high school
    trying to figure out where to apply or a junior in college with nothing in
    savings, wondering how to finance the second half of your undergrad degree, it’d
    sure be nice if you sent Bissonnette a muffin basket with all that extra money
    you’ll have.
• Genetic Marker Linked to Ovarian Cancer Risk – Annotated tags: cancer ovariancancer
  • July 22, 2010 — A newly identified genetic marker may help predict ovarian
    cancer risk, Yale University researchers report online in Cancer
    Research. Variations in the KRAS gene occur in one-quarter of women with
    ovarian cancer, and 61% of women with ovarian cancer who have a family history
    of breast and ovarian cancer.
    “For many women out there with a
    strong family history of ovarian cancer who previously have had no identified
    genetic cause for their family’s disease, this might be it for them,” says study
    researcher Joanne B. Weidhaas, MD, PhD, an associate professor of therapeutic
    radiology and researcher for the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn., in a
    news release. “Our findings support that the KRAS-variant is a new genetic
    marker of ovarian cancer risk.”
    While BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are known markers for breast and ovarian cancer
    risk, only half of the women with a family history of these cancers tested
    positive for these genes. Fully 60% of these women did test positive for the
    KRAS genetic mutation, the new study shows.
    Women with BRCA genetic mutations tend to develop ovarian cancer at younger
    ages, but those with the new genetic marker tend to develop ovarian cancer after
    menopause, the researchers report.
  • Ovarian cancer is known as a particularly lethal cancer because symptoms can
    be vague and many women are not diagnosed until the cancer has already started
    to spread.
    “People are blindsided when they get ovarian cancer; they really had no
    idea,” Weidhaas tells WebMD. “This is a cancer where there are not a lot of
    known risks so there is probably more of an inherited component and it’s really
    important to identify ways for us to know who is really at risk.”
    What’s more, the new KRAS mutation “might predict ovarian cancer in the
    general population as well,” she says. “This will require a large study and
    needs additional validation.”

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