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  • Encourages public awareness and education, supports research and training as well as provides knowledge to women diagnosed with gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian, uterine, vaginal, vulvar, endometrial, fallopian tube, and cervical cancers.
    www.foundationforwomenscancer.org

  • Offer support groups, a database of gynecologic oncologists searchable by state and educational materials.
    National Ovarian Cancer Coalition

  • Distributes materials and sponsors an annual advocacy conference for survivors and families.
    Ovarian Cancer National Alliance

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Ovarian - More Stories

Jun 09, 2011

Avastin Continues to Show Impressive Results in Ovarian Cancer

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Avastin appears to reduce relative risk of disease progression in recurring ovarian cancer.

Dec 09, 2010

Pipeline

BY STAFF REPORTS

The latest in cancer prevention, diagnosis & treatment 

Sep 07, 2010

A New Hope

BY CHARLOTTE HUFF

PARP inhibitors continue to look “promising.”

Jun 20, 2010

New Ovarian Cancer Screening Method Shows Promise

BY MELISSA WEBER

Researchers have developed a new screening approach that produces very few false positives in postmenopausal women with an average risk of ovarian cancer.

Jun 15, 2010

Longer Use of Avastin Slows Ovarian Cancer

BY MELISSA WEBER

Continued use of the targeted drug Avastin (bevacizumab), after initial treatment with the drug and chemotherapy, helped slow progression of advanced ovarian cancer, according to a phase 3 study.

Jun 07, 2010

ASCO Updates

BY STAFF REPORTS

Updates from the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 

Aug 20, 2009

Playing the Numbers Game

BY LINDSAY RAY

Ovarian cancer survivors ponder implications of CA-125 study.

Jun 09, 2009

ASCO Updates

BY STAFF REPORTS

News from the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dec 09, 2008

Downsizing Swollen Limbs

BY KATHERINE HOBSON

Controlling lymphedema with the old and the new.

Dec 11, 2007

When Survivors Speak And Physicians Listen

BY BARBARA A. GOFF, MD

Ovarian cancer survivor advocates led the way for scientific studies of early symptoms of ovarian cancer and are ultimately responsible for the recognition and consensus statement on the warning signs by the medical community.

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