While Feuerstein's cancer is now in remission, she knows that her daughter is at risk. I hope for my daughter's future life that she has a wonderfully full, happy, healthy life. That they discover screening techniques so that young women do not have to live in fear of ovarian cancer. Now, experts do agree that women at increased risk should be tested, women like Gilda Radner with a mother or sister who's had breast or ovarian cancer. And there are other risk factors besides family history.
Risk increases with age.
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