Ovarian cancer awareness campaign (From Yeovil Express)

Ovarian cancer awareness campaign

9:18am Wednesday 7th March 2007

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AN awareness day will be held in the Quedam Centre in Yeovil on Saturday (March 10) to spread awareness about the dangers of ovarian cancer.

The Ovarian Cancer Action group is saying PANTS - Positive Action Now Targeting Survival - and hope to make people more aware about the potentially deadly disease.

Gynae-oncology clinical nurse specialist Sue Golby and gynae-oncology clinical nurse specialist Eileen Fort and their volunteers hope that the day proves successful.

They said: "We would like to do something to improve the low survival rates for women affected by ovarian cancer.

"It's a sad fact that in the UK only 30% of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer survive five years. We can improve this.

"By organising these events we are helping to raise awareness of the disease and of its symptoms."

Sue and Eileen are involved in the care of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer and with other gynaecological cancers. They also offer a support group called GOSSIP for those women, as well as their partners and friends.

For more information about the group or about ovarian cancer, please see them at their stand or contact them on the numbers above.

If you would like to organise your own PANTS event, please call the Ovarian cancer action PANTS hotline on 08456 888 466 or email info@ovarian.org.uk The Ovarian Cancer Action group is a leading national charity raising awareness of the symptoms and risk factors of ovarian cancer. It helps to fund research into the cause and treatment of the disease and work to get women's voices heard.

Visit www.ovarian.org.uk for further information.

Some frightening facts about ovarian cancer are as follows: 12 women in the UK die of ovarian cancer every day. It is the fourth most common cancer in women.

Most women, 75 per cent, are not diagnosed until the cancer has already spread.

UK survival rates are amongst the lowest in the Western world and have changed little in the last 20 years.

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