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Hi ..anyone out there with ovarian cancer? This is my third time. Getting tired of the trauma. But what upsets me more is the lack of awareness and the lack media attention. I had breast cancer 20 years ago when there wasn't much hype about it. Now you can't buy a tube of toothpaste without a pink ribbon on it. For Christ sakes I can't even buy my chicken noodle soup, the only thing that helps me after chemo, without the pink ribbon thing. No offense to the PR geniuses for breast cancer...you got the word out, you raised mountains of money, increased public awareness and saved lives. Job well done!

Now can we shed some of that bright public light on ovarian cancer???? Somebody please. I found my breast cancer by accident when I felt something weird in / on my breast. I was told that I was too young and subsequent mammograms proved to be false negatives. Remember this was twenty years ago. But the lump would not go away and the cancer eventually was diagnosed. I was treated with surgery, chemo and radiation and went on to live a disease free life for twelve years, although I lost my mom to breast cancer less than two years after I was diagnosed.

The horror of ovarian cancer would play itself in the following manner:

In July of 2001, an annual pap smear revealed atypical cells...I can't quite remember what they called it. Suffice it to say that these cells had no business being on my cervix. Long,miserable, horrifying story short I had stage 3C metastatic ovarian cancer.....no symptoms, no pain, no swelling, no nothing.

The feeling of being assaulted by something I never saw, smelled or felt, has never left me.
Now I am nearing the end of my fourth cancer assault, my third with ovarian, I am feeling isolated and worn out but ironically ready for a fight. Any one out there want to fight about getting the word out for ovarian cancer? Actually, any womens' cancer.

Let's chat.