Ovarian cancer survivor pays it forward - Globe and Mail- Topic: Halloween News
Now, a lot of people visit their physicians and emergency rooms with newspaper clippings and printouts from websites in hand and, invariably, they are convinced they have a grave, potentially fatal disease such as cancer and, almost invariably, they have some minor ailment, if anything. Just over a month later, she underwent a hysterectomy (removal of the ovaries and uterus) and then chemotherapy, which began on Halloween and ended on Valentine’s Day. The challenge, he said, is for general practitioners to diagnose ovarian cancer early, given the rather vague symptoms and the fact that those symptoms are virtually identical to other far more common conditions such as urinary tract infection and inflammatory bowel disease. He said making women aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer is important to ensure the illness is caught early when it’s treatable. An estimated 2,500 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 1,700 women will die from the disease in 2008, according to projections done by the National Cancer Institute of Canada. More Halloween News
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