Clint Stanaway from Channel 9 News (and our favourite Cleo Bachelor of the Year nominee) tells us a bit about the 2012 Mands’ Mob campaign. Once again the Herbert sisters have put together a team in honour of their amazing mum, Mands, hoping to raise 000 for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation
Anil Sood, MD, discusses research connecting high platelet counts to the severity of ovarian cancer and the Sprint for Life, which raises funds for the Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program. bit.ly
Tina, who battled ovarian cancer for 3 years, passed away January 7th 2012. She was an activist trying to get the word out about early detection. Please ladies, take a lesson from this 44 year old. “Early detection of ovarian cancer offers a 90% cure rate. Sadly, a lack of symptoms from this silent disease means that about 75% of ovarian cancer cases will have spread to the abdomen by the time they are detected and, unfortunately, most patients die within five years.”
Mahsa and Rashel attend Ovarian Cancer Canada’s fashion show fundraiser to support research for Ovarian Cancer.
Here’s the video we did for this year’s Marsha Rivkin Auction.
With few early symptoms, ovarian cancer — like many cancers — can be hard to detect without invasive and expensive procedures. “Early detection is absolutely not only key but probably the only way for us to win the war on cancer,” says Vadim Backman who is a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. With support from the National Science Foundation, in part funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Backman’s research is shedding light on how early cancer detection can be made cheaper, more accurate, and less invasive. “We’re developing new optics technologies to learn about tissue structure and composition, and we are applying these technologies for early cancer screening,” he says. The team’s research is part of a field that’s called bio-photonics, where light becomes an analytical tool for biology.