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Advocacy
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Verdict in Hormone replacement
- By CATSMEOW · New reply yesterday at 3:38 pm
- 2 replies
- Nov 23, 2009 6:00 pm US/Eastern Wyeth Ordered To Pay Millions In Cancer Case Reporting Stephanie Stahl PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) Huge Philadelphia jury verdicts against drug companies: $113 million going to ...
Life Beyond Cancer at Miraval Spa
- By hinsopa · New reply November 24, 2009
- 6 replies
- Anyone attending this in Arizona in December ...
DO Something!
- By lifeisgrand · New reply November 19, 2009
- 17 replies
- Okay ladies (and gentlemen). Today is the day we need to DO something for ovarian cancer. There has been a lot of discussion in the past month or two about awareness and yes a lot of complaining about ...
I Blame my GP and found another at DX, Did you?
- By kennebec · New reply November 17, 2009
- 32 replies
- I loved my female doc prior to dx of OvCa, III-c. But she missed everything! She did not connect the dots. The pain under the right rib. The mysterious one-time anemia. Never asked me about bloating ...
looking to start group in my area
- By calicokat · New reply November 15, 2009
- 4 replies
- I just moved to Illinois. The nearest group I can find is Chicago. How do you go about starting a group ? I am in Plainfield area. Anyone else interested? What about walks /runs? There aren't enough ...
Hospitalized with a port a cath(venous access device)
- By melnp · New reply October 23, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hospitalized with a port (venous access device) and still getting peripheral sticks and IVs. Has anyone had this same experience, hospital nurses not using your port ...
Interesting Article_Seeing Red in Pink Products
- By Cheryl4Teal · New reply October 14, 2009
- 7 replies
- I found this interesting to read, since so much support is put on breast cancer and not other cancers. It makes you think a bit. I too feel its overdone. Dont know really where to post this. forgive me ...
Turning this whisper into a SHOUT!!!
- By Ovacom06 · New reply October 13, 2009
- 9 replies
- Though everyone’s experience with ovarian cancer is different, there remain so many common themes, feelings of sadness and hope, fear and courage, which resonate among all of us. We must continue to tell ...
Happy Feet!!
- By Mikat · New reply September 27, 2009
- 19 replies
- I just got my happy feet shoes! They are so cute! Cuter than the picture even. They also sent a teal rubber bracelet, pin, bumper sticker and some other things. If you don't already have your happy feet ...
Cancer Institute of NJ - Need Volunteers
- By TvlBeach · Posted September 19, 2009
- 0 replies
- The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is looking for healthy women for a research study. "Why Do Some Women Develop Breast Cancer Earlier than Others?" Since I can't do any Ovarian this time, I thought this ...
Letters to the editor?
- By genica45 · New reply September 19, 2009
- 8 replies
- Has anyone written letters to the editors of their hometown papers or surrounding newspapers about ovarian cancer awareness month? An editor at the newspaper I work at said she is going to run an article ...
CALL THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
- By zona · New reply September 18, 2009
- 7 replies
- Another member posted that the American Cancer Society website has a large pink spot light on making strides against breast cancer on the top of the page and nothing regarding ovarian cancer in this ...
How Was Your OVCA Discovered?
- By kennebec · New reply September 17, 2009
- 58 replies
- I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm new to the site and I just want to share my experience and to ask you to answer this question..."When and how was your OVCA discovered?" My OVCA was discovered ...
I Got the Wrong Kind of Cancer
- By nancyt · New reply September 15, 2009
- 6 replies
- A few years ago someone sent me this when I was frustrated at the lack of ovarian cancer awareness--it said from ELNSR's OVCA blog and I think since it's September and we're all trying to ge the word ...
GP doctors ingnorance of Ovarian Cancer and effects
- By star93022 · New reply September 12, 2009
- 16 replies
- My mothers GP doctor gave my mother a pap smear a month before she died. And all he told me that you can't diagnose Ovarian Cancer, and that if their is swelling and patting the ovaries that is the only ...
Music for the Walk
- By Shelter · New reply September 10, 2009
- 4 replies
- September 13 th, the Winners Walk of HOPE for Ovarian Cancer Music written for us.... :D whooo hooo ohhhhhhhhhhhh !!! let's walk ya let's walk http://www.winnerswalkofhope.ca/video/Le tsWalk.mp3 ...
Dr. Oz's New Show
- By nancyt · New reply September 10, 2009
- 12 replies
- Hi all, I know we all have gotten frustrated (putting it mildly) in trying to get the word out about OVCA especially now that it is September. I know many of you, like me have tried contacting Oprah and ...
Turn up the Volume!!
- By Ovacom06 · Posted September 6, 2009
- 0 replies
- The best way to increase early detection and survival is to educate women about the disease. Check out the youtube promo! I posted on my facebook wall and asked my friends to do the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuWsgjEp ...
BRACA testing
- By cdbart · New reply August 21, 2009
- 22 replies
- What information do any of you have on the BRACCA testing? I understand that medicare will pay for it? Is that a correct assumption. How accurate is it? Who does the testing? I have two daughters and ...
Breast cancer donation phone call???
- By CATSMEOW · New reply July 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- Yesterday afternoon I answered a phone call from a woman looking to get donations for breast cancer awareness.Really!I have never recd any phone calls drumming up funds for any other cancer-ever.I have ...
