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Resources
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At Clearity, we provide individualized support to patients, families, and caregivers. Our support is personalized, based on each person’s needs and priorities.
Curetoday.com provides access to leading resources and information that serve as a guide to every stage of the cancer experience.
Disability Benefits Help is an independent organization dedicated to helping people of all ages receive Social Security disability benefits and maintain eligibility once approved by connecting them with disability advocates or attorneys.
Facing Cancer Together serves people with cancer and their families through support groups, wellness classes, and bereavement groups.
The Foundation for Women’s Cancer (FWC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness of gynecologic cancer risk awareness, prevention, early detection and optimal treatment.
We’ve carefully designed an environment where it’s okay to open up about personal experiences and share sensitive health information. Here, conversations naturally reveal powerful insights across hundreds of health conditions.
The Julie Fund was founded in 2004 and has grown to become the single largest contributor to ovarian cancer research at Mass General Hospital. In the past 17 years, The Julie Fund has donated over $4M in the fight against women’s cancers.
The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus study report From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition made recommendations to improve the quality of care that cancer survivors receive, in recognition that cancer survivors are at risk for significant physical, psychosocial, and financial repercussions from cancer and its treatment. Since then, efforts to recognize and address the unique needs of cancer survivors have increased, including an emphasis on improving the evidence base for cancer survivorship care and identifying best practices in the delivery of high-quality cancer survivorship care.
Look Good Feel Better is dedicated to improving the quality of life and self-esteem of people undergoing cancer treatment. The program offers complimentary group and virtual sessions that teach beauty techniques to help people with cancer to face their diagnosis with greater confidence.
NCI leads, conducts, and supports cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives.
NCCS’ mission is to advocate for quality cancer care for all people touched by cancer. Resources are provided for planning and survival.
In our pursuit to save lives, we fight tirelessly to prevent and cure ovarian cancer and to improve the quality of life for survivors. It is with this commitment that we reach out to all who are touched by this disease to offer support, services, information, and most of all, hope.
Provides information on patient assistance programs and other programs that help people obtain medications, supplies, and equipment
Oneinforty is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of the one-in-forty risk to those of Ashkenazi Jewish (Eastern European) descent of inheriting BRCA gene mutations, and provides education and support to individuals and families to help them manage their cancer risk.
An excellent, highly readable research paper by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the state of the science in ovarian cancer research, identifying major knowledge gaps about the biology and treatment of ovarian cancer, and considering opportunities to advance the research.
Read about the first steps you should take after diagnosis and find information about survivorship, local support, and ovarian cancer.
Supporting ovarian cancer research, awareness & patient programs, Ovations for the Cure is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of a cure for ovarian cancer. Our goal is to live in a world free of ovarian cancer. How do we get there? It starts with education and awareness. We provide education programs that prioritize increasing awareness of ovarian cancer to improve early detection. Focused on improving the lives of women currently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, we have created and participate in many patient programs. We are funding critical research that is getting us closer to a test for early detection and a cure every day. With your help, we can attain better research, increased awareness and support for the over 22,000 women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year.
Through our disease funds, we offer a fast, reliable way to get help paying for medication costs, co-pays, insurance premiums, and travel expenses.
State of Serenity Gifts is founded by a cancer survivor and her mother. Together, they create all-natural, high quality and affordable handmade self-care products and gift boxes for cancer survivors, their caregivers, and all warriors of life to bring comfort, joy, love, and healing physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. In addition, a percentage of EVERY sale is donated to a non-profit organization that supports cancer survivors.
A guide for Cancer Supporters: Step-by-Step Ways to Help a Relative or Friend Fight Cancer.
Sharsheret, Hebrew for chain, is the only national organization supporting Jewish women and families, of all backgrounds, facing breast and ovarian cancer—those who are diagnosed and those at high risk.
The Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University (SIU) is a community-based patient care, research, education and outreach program established to improve cancer care.
Steps Through OC is a six-month program of The Clearity Foundation consisting of free professional counseling in tandem with education, referrals and other resources for any woman facing ovarian cancer, her family and active caregivers. Our goal is to support physical and emotional health so people feel, function and live well with OC.
When we think about the term “mindful practice,” what might come to mind is having to add one more thing to your to-do list. But what if learning to be mindful could feel soothing, calming, and give you a sense of well-being? What if it could be something to look forward to, particularly during the times you find yourself waiting?
Empowering the global ovarian cancer community through knowledge, collaboration and action.