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One thing you can surely expect when being treated or monitored for cancer is scans. While there is no true screener that can diagnose ovarian cancer, scans help doctors locate...

This article was originally published on LungCancer.net. Dealing with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer on your own can be quite hard. There are many important decisions to consider, and much...

We never think something can happen to us until it does. However, we have all experienced this phenomenon before whether it’s failing a test, winning a race, losing a loved...

This article was originally published on LungCancer.net by Alison Petok, MSW, LCSW, MPH. Hearing that you have cancer for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. In fact, many patients...

The truth is when you're diagnosed with cancer, you will experience various forms of loss. For those of us with ovarian cancer specifically, that can mean anything from the parts of...

Dedication: This article is dedicated to my godfather. Thank you, John, for teaching me about love, compassion, and authenticity. I am one of the lucky ones. Specifically, I am one...

After signing my life away on the surgical consent form to remove my tumor ASAP, I went home and contemplated all the questions. Would I ever be able to have...

"Annual Exams Save Lives" has become one of my most-touted phrases since being diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in 2019. While many - including medical professionals and gynecologists alike -...

I've never been a woman who likes to toot her horn when it comes to talking about my sexuality, but since I've become an ovarian cancer thriver I've got something...

The holidays are an interesting time of year without a cancer diagnosis - I think people either love them or hate them, there's really no in-between. I fall into the latter...

Before cancer, I took care of everyone in the caregiver sense. I ran a solo business and saw 25+ clients per week, I was the housewife who took care of...

You're tired. No, you're exhausted...I get it! You wonder when is this ever going to get better or improve, how long does it take, does it ever get better? To be...

I was afraid of losing many things when I was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Some things I wasn't even prepared for, yet I knew they were coming. I was...

Before chemotherapy, I bragged about how I could sleep through the night. Never in my life have I ever suffered from insomnia. Chemotherapy changed all that and it was awful...

Would you like to share your experience with the ovarian cancer community and help others who are also living with this diagnosis? We are looking to add new voices to...

For all the readers and thinkers out there who have landed here to read about managing chemo brain...I am speaking directly to you. I thought that I would read 10...

During a cancer diagnosis and treatment, there will be times where you know you need help. There will also be times where you may not be ready to ask for...

At the moment, I am sitting in the atrium of the hospital waiting for my PET scan appointment. This seems to be customary nowadays, happening time and time again. But...

I’m not going to lie, sometimes I forget that I had cancer. That brief moment of bliss and detachment is the hardest part to cope with because once I snap...

When the pharmacist said I would be starting to lose my hair in 2 weeks, I knew I would want to buzz my hair at the first sign of hair...