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Posted on Jan 9, 2011

Ovarian Cancer Patients Swear By Cancer Support Groups

If up until recently anyone would have told you that voluntarily you would sit down with a group of strangers to discuss your innermost feelings, the odds are good that you would have laughed. Unfortunately, being diagnosed with ovarian cancer most likely stood your world on its head and you may now find...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010

To Do List For The Spouse Of An Ovarian Cancer Patient

When you wife is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, you automatically add to your role of husband father that of caregiver. While this may carry some nebulous connotations at times, there are a number of distinct responsibilities you must be aware of; perhaps surprisingly to some, many of these responsibilities...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010

Know The Risk Factors For Ovarian Cancer

Two women stand side by side. They seem relatively healthy one has ovarian cancer and doesn’t know it; the other does not have the disease. Why did one woman, seemingly healthy get ovarian cancer and the other do not? Did the one have more risk factors for the disease? Was she predestined to get...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2010

Depression In Ovarian Cancer Patients

Most anyone will agree that being diagnosed with a life threatening illness has a profound effect on emotional wellbeing and psychological health. How much more so, when the diagnosis is ovarian cancer, a disease with a high mortality rate! Yet did you know that depression and anxiety do not have to be an...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010

Becoming A Caregiver For An Ovarian Cancer Patient Without Losing Your Mind

If your wife or loved one has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, you are most likely just as stunned and frightened as she is. Unlike many other illnesses, this one carries a distinct connotation of death, fear of the unknown, and also the foreboding that unpleasant medical treatments will be utilized in an...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2010

Advance Health Care Directives And Ovarian Cancer

Advance health care directives present your wishes and instructions with respect to the care you wish to receive in the event that you are no longer able to communicate effectively with others. In some cases this is a natural outcropping of the progression your ovarian cancer will take while in other cases...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2010

Medical Scams Involving Ovarian Cancer Patients

It is a sad reality that where there is a buck to be made, scam artists are not long in coming. How much sadder is it, however, when terminally ill ovarian cancer sufferers are subjected to claims and promises of healing, remission, and miracle cures that have no basis in fact. Targeting the terminally ill...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2010

Is There A Link Between Nutrition And Ovarian Cancer

Is it possible to better your chances of avoiding this dreaded disease simply by the nutritional choices you make? According to a study cited by the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services, there is a definite link! While every consumer is well aware of the necessity to eat healthier and live healthier,...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2010

Acidophilus In Ovarian Cancer Treatment

Acidophilus has received a newfound following and if one may believe the television and radio advertising, it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It did not take long for disreputable merchants to get their hands on this dietary supplement and use it for their own dishonest gain, claiming that it could...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010

When Your Wife Has Ovarian Cancer

Although a diagnosis that is accompanied by fear and sometimes grim faced physicians, ovarian cancer is no longer the death sentence it once was. Yet whether your wife’s cancer was caught early on and stands a good chance of treatment, or instead was discovered later on and will require highly invasive...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2010

When Ovarian Cancer Treatments Cause More Cancer

It is a sad reality that at times there are treatment which may actually be worse for your body than the disease they are seeking to cure. It may feel like this when ovarian cancer treatments cause more cancer at a later date. Of course, when you consider that ovarian cancer is inevitably lethal if not...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010

Ovarian Cancer And The Elusive Symptoms

A disease that affects one or both ovaries and is one of the most under-recognized illness-affecting women is called ovarian cancer. It is recognized as the fifth most fatal gynecologic cancers women face today. Over half of the women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, die within five years of the...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2010

Living With Ovarian Cancer

Women who have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer may be those who are considered to be the “picture of perfect health”, they may be those who do not have any of the risk factors for ovarian cancer and still they receive the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. They will often reveal that they had...
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Posted on May 31, 2010

Dealing With A Diagnosis Of Ovarian Cancer

Cancer is a most certainly dreaded diagnosis and ovarian cancer in particular is feared so much more than other manifestations of that disease. This is due in part because by the time ovarian cancer is detected it is usually in the later stages of presentation and survival rates of sufferers even for the...
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Posted on May 27, 2010

Treatment Of Stage Ii Ovarian Cancer

It is a sad reality that ovarian cancer is very rarely caught when it is still only in stages I or II, yet for those women fortunate enough to have the diagnosis made at that time, treatment promises recovery and good chances at complete remission and long term survival. Due to the aggressive nature of this...
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