Tuesday, September 05, 2006

wake me up when September ends....


September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month in the US.

Although designating a month for awareness of ovca is a step in the right direction, it is my hope that someday women will be taught to be aware of the symptoms of this disease as they are taught about breast cancer. I hope that someday there will be adequate funding for research for a cure of the most deadly cancer a woman can get.
I hope that someday, ovca will not be the 5th leading cause of death in women..

Raising awareness is as simple as sharing information with each other...
Please tell someone....

You can learn more about this disease by reading here- http://cancer.about.com/od/ovariancancer/a/ovarianawarenes.htm or here... http://64.132.170.241/newnocc/updateie.asp
or you can read our story in my archives........

September 26 will be one year since my mother passed away...
I'll never forget the words she said to me..

"If just one person is helped by what is learned from my illness, then everything will be alright.."

posted by jsdaughter at 9:28 PM 51 comments

(written September of 2005) I have learned much in the last nine months. I have read that ovarian cancer whispers. I say it screams. It just needs someone to listen. The American Cancer Society statistics for ovarian cancer estimate that there will be 22,220 new cases and 16,210 deaths in 2005. This is a death rate FOUR TIMES that of breast cancer.Almost 70 percent of women with the common epithelial ovarian cancer are not diagnosed until the disease is advanced in stage. The 5-year survival rate for these women is only 15 to 20 percent. This is unacceptable. Women need to be made more aware of the symptoms, and doctors need to listen to their patients. Especially when the patient tells them that they fear they have ovca, as my mother did for almost a year before she was finally diagnosed. It’s so sad and senseless when a woman knows the symptoms but can’t get anyone to listen to what she is saying.

©JsDaughter