Having lived through the experience with her mother, she decided to target other young adults with her early detection message.

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In 2009, Yael founded the F Cancer charity focused on getting young adults to engage with their parents about early detection.

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She credits early detection with saving her life and volunteered for the American Cancer Society for 12 years following her diagnosis to educate others about the importance of early detection, including serving as the only Spanish speaking volunteer in her area.

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It was originally introduced as a screening tool to help early detection of babies with serious problems, allowing future planning of the pregnancy on the back of this.

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As the middle class "opts out" of Medicare because the premiums keep rising, a larger portion of the population enters a market-based system with even more incentives for ever cheaper early detection until the technology gets cheap enough to be adopted universally, across the income spectrum.

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The EEA suggests that the best way to tackle the threats posed by invasive species was through a "combination of preventative measures, early detection and rapid response to incursions, with permanent management only as the last option".

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So far as early detection is concerned, it certainly is complementary with the market system.

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It is also possible that a proportion of girls with mild autistic traits lose those traits early on and so escape detection by 8 years of age (the age of the children in the CDC study).

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When she was first diagnosed with the disease, she said her ordeal had taught her the importance of early detection in fighting breast cancer and she urged other women to have mammograms.

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