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.
As already stated, an increase in the number of radiation particles that pass through the human body correlates to an increase in the chance of developing cancer. Therefore, the risk to people is proportional to the length of exposure and the radon concentration in air (linear, no-threshold hypothesis).