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Easy Way to Raise Awareness of Ovarian Cancer
- By MOCAKG · Posted March 17, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- Hello Friends: Here is an easy way to raise awareness of ovarian cancer and support for MOCA. A vote for Lisa McLaughlin is a vote for ovarian cancer awareness! If you have a caringbridge journal please ...
FDA-Approved Drug Dasatinib (Sprycel) Significantly Inhibits OVCA Growth
- By libbyshope · Posted November 11, 2009
- Discussion in Research · 3 recommendations
- The drug dasatinib (Sprycel®), approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in patients with specific types of leukemia, significantly inhibited the growth and invasiveness of ovarian cancer ...
My letter to Kroger
- By specialT65 · Posted September 27, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Here's a letter I sent to Kroger. This is just a start in my letter writing. Today, September 25, 2009, I received my regular email from Kroger and when I opened it your pink heading caught my eye right ...
SO MAD! OPRAH IS OUT OF HER MIND
- By jeaniet · Posted September 3, 2009
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising events · 3 recommendations
- So I just got a mass email from OCNA asking if I want to tell my story on Oprah. I was so excited that Oprah was finally going to do a story about OC. I clicked on the link to her page, and what do I ...
A Woman's Apparel CEO explains why he WON'T fund Ovarian Research
- By joseph2 · Posted August 22, 2009
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising events · 3 recommendations
- Folks, it troubles me to submit this to you. Frankly, I'm horrified to have read what I was just forwarded regarding why a CEO of a woman's apparel company won't fund ovarian cancer research. Even so ...
Final Goodbye to my Angel Seka!!! She lost the battle to OC!!!
- By hope4seka · Posted August 21, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Final Goodbye to my Angel Seka!!! She lost the battle to OC!!! It is with great sorrow and sadness that I am sending this out. Seka passed away late Tuesday evening August 18, 2009. I can’t understand ...
- A Life Chaning Story - The Wooden Bowl
- By Shelter · Posted April 9, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- The Wooden Bowl I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and ...
GINGER-ovarian cancer cells die
Vulnerability
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Living with a chronic illness has forced me to become vulnerable. I was a very capable woman, able to keep many balls in the air at the same time - go ahead and throw another one at me. Fibromyalgia eliminated ...
Asking for Prayer Support
- By DTMEDIC · Posted January 28, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- I've been away from the message board for awhile now as my MIL has become progressively more ill. When I last posted, ALL of her blood values were dropping despite blood transfusions, etc. She developed ...
HBOT For Radiation-induced Necrosis
- By gpawelski · Posted January 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Radiation-induced necrosis is a serious reaction to radiation treatment. It may result from the death of tumor cells and associated reaction in surrounding normal brain or it may result from the necrosis ...
Same song, second verse. First recurrence.
- By Jennali · Posted December 4, 2008
- Discussion in Recurrence · 3 recommendations
- The second CA125 test in a month confirmed what I already knew in my heart. With a CA125 of 323 (it was 154 a month ago) and enlarged para-aortic lymph nodes, my gyn/onc said yesterday that we have to ...
What do you have to be thankful for today? Thanksgiving Day
- By Rose2 · Posted November 27, 2008
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 3 recommendations
- As I sat here this morning giving thanks to the Lord. So many things came to my mind. And the more I focused on them , the more thankful I became. So I wanted to write and ask all of you to share at least ...
Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes
- By gpawelski · Posted November 12, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Elderly nursing home residents receive relatively few cancer care services, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Few studies have examined cancer treatment and ...
Barack Obama, Endorses the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
Kathy Bates Opens Up About her Experience with Ovarian Cancer
- By CindyAyento · Posted October 15, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Dear Ovarian Cancer National Alliance Community: A few weeks ago, the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) had the opportunity to sit down with Academy Award winning actress Kathy Bates to listen as ...
Prayers for Tweetymarie
- By momanderson920 · Posted September 23, 2008
- Discussion in Treatment · 3 recommendations
- I am not posting this to push my faith on anyone, but I wanted to ask those who would like to join me in daily prayer for Tweetymarie. I personally am better at picking a time of day so I don't forget ...
Doxil and Avastin, Help Questions
It is growing so fast and this scares me.
- By tweetymarie · Posted September 7, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- I am still here. haven't felt good though. My brother took me to Ft Worth to c some family n that probably didn't help but I needed to go c them. I am very sore.The pain is worse n it is growing so fast ...
StandUp2Cancer Day is September 5
- By NotDyingToday · Posted August 26, 2008
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising events · 3 recommendations
- To all my friends here~ Many of us have commented on the need for greater awareness about Ovarian Cancer. Well, the Entertainment Industry Foundation is funding programs to raise awareness. They fund ...
