Average length of a hockey stick â If you are playing hockey for the first time a good starting point for the length of your stick is between the chin, and nose.
Some things that lower a woman's risk for ovarian cancer include: 1  Taking birth control pills (oral contraceptives). But this may slightly increase the risk for breast cancer and other health problems. 2  Having babies and breast-feeding. 3  Having both tubes tied (tubal ligation) or having a hysterectomy.
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women. It causes more deaths than any other type of female reproductive cancer. The cause is unknown. Risk of developing ovarian cancer may be due to: The fewer children a woman has and the later in life she gives birth, the higher her risk of ovarian cancer.