Get Informed

To gather more information about ovarian cancer and resources for patients and caregivers, please visit the following sites, and feel free to contact me about other useful sites that should be added to this list.

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance

http://www.ovariancancer.org/

National Ovarian Cancer Coallition

http://www.ovarian.org/

cafepress ( a site to buy t-shirts, bumper stickers, and other products that promote Ovarian Cancer awareness)

http://shop.cafepress.com/ovarian-cancer

“Conversations” ( site developed by a daughter and husband of ovarian cancer, that exists to inform and connect those touched by ovarian cancer)

http://www.ovarian-news.org/index.html

ovarian cancer research fund ( an organization devoted to funding research toward a cure for ovarian cancer)

http://www.ocrf.org/

  • Facts

    Every hour, approximately 10 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer such as ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancers. Each year, we lose over 26,000 of our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends to one of these terrible cancers. This is a tragedy. Research shows that many of those deaths could be prevented if more women knew the risk factors and recognized the early symptoms of gynecologic cancers so that they could discuss them with their doctors. Ovarian cancer has a 90 percent survival rate if detected in Stage One and only a 20 percent survival rate if detected in Stage Three or Four.

  • Do you recognize some of the common symptoms of ovarian cancer?

    * Pressure or bloating in your abdomen
    * Constant and progressive changes in bowel or bladder patterns
    * Persistent digestive problems
    * Ongoing excessive fatigue
    * Abnormal bleeding

Your Mother is Always with You

She’s the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street.

She’s the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks.

She’s the cool hand on your brow when you’re not well.

Your mother lives inside your laughter.

She’s crystallized in every tear drop.

She’s the place you came from, your first home.

She’s the map you follow with every step you take.

She’s your first love and your first heartbreak.

And nothing on earth can separate you.

Not time, Not space, Not even death will ever separate you from your mother.

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She hoped, She had dreams, she had wishes.

She thought, she pondered, she feared, she asked, she waited, she prayed, she heard, she froze, she wept, she grieved.

I wept, I grieved, I feared, I loved.

We clenched our fists, we loved harder, we laughed more, we prayed more, we sang louder, we sang louder, we cried often, we fought the good fight, we learned how to live.

I will remember, I will fight, I will stand, I will ask, I will demand, I will honor, I will preserve a life that had much left to live.

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