ovarian cancer resources
Below you will find an abbreviated list of resources that may be helpful in your ovarian cancer journey, whether it is your own or someone you love. We also encourage you to visit our Whisper Network Blog and write a post or comment and to contact other readers. If you have any listings you'd like to add, or if you're having trouble locating the appropriate resources, please contact us.
articles & periodicals
Turning Point 2011 (From the Women's Cancers Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
After Diagnosis: A Guide for Patients and Families (From the American Cancer Society)
Caring for the Patient with Cancer at Home (From the American Cancer Society)
Understanding Chemotherapy (From the American Cancer Society)
Older Articles/Periodicals
WCP focuses new research on elusive ovarian cancer: Hide and Seek
Should I ask my doctor for an annual CA 125 blood test to check for early signs of ovarian cancer?
Ramping up research: A multipronged attack on ovarian cancer
Broken bones, the Pill, and ovarian cancer: Unexpected discovery may lower ovarian cancer risk
What every woman should know: New effort brings screening, information to the underserved
at-home care & services
awareness & information
United States Government's National Cancer Institute
Ovarian Cancer Awareness
American Cancer Society
Johanna's Law
Cancer.net
books, articles & magazines
Couples Confronting Cancer: Keeping Your Relationship Strong by Joy Fincannon and Katherine Bruss
Cancer can be a disruptive and stressful element in a relationship, and this guide provides information about the illness, suggesting ways to work through conflict to create intimacy and to deal with it more successfully. It shows couples how to solve or avert problems, allowing partners to become closer and communicate more easily and truthfully with one another both during and beyond the cancer experience.
The Median Isn't the Message by Stephen Jay Gould
Widely available on-line, this essay by Harvard evolutionary biologist recounts his experience with a rare form of cancer and his contention (ultimately proven right) that the "median survival rate" was not useful in determining the course of his own disease.
The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
A book-length study of the ways in which pain "unmakes" language, and the challenges it presents. (Scarry uses instances from the political world in her first chapters, talking primarily about torture; she also includes examples from medicine and illness, but her main interest is theoretical and philosophical.)
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
A warm, loving, funny memoir about a daughter's experience with breast cancer as a young mother at the same time her father faces a recurrence from prostate cancer. This is a loving book about a father/daughter relationship, and among other things. Lighthearted and moving.
Lopsided by Meredith Norton
Funny (bordering on caustic), appropriately angry, moving story about a young mother with inflammatory breast cancer and her experience of treatment. Refreshingly candid.
It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
Dated now in terms of treatment experience (this memoir describes Radner's experience with ovarian cancer in the 1980s) it is nonetheless classic Gilda Radner—incredibly funny, moving, and heartbreaking all at once.
A Guide to Survivorship for Women with Ovarian Cancer by F.J. Montz, Robert E. Bristow and Paula J. Anasasia
Trials by Anne Sandstrom
100 Questions & Answers About Ovarian Cancer, Second Edition, by Don S. Dizon
Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer by Steven Piver
A Feather in My Wig: Ovarian Cancer Cured, Seventeen Years and Going Strong! by Barbara R. Van Billiard
No Time to Die: Living with Ovarian Cancer by Liz Tilberis
Ovarian Cancer Journeys: Survivors Share Their Stories To Help Others by Ayala Miron
Cure Magazine
Combining science with humanity, CURE makes cancer understandable
clinical trials
National Cancer Institute Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trials
This page updates periodically about government-registered clinical trials.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trials
Learn about trials through DFCI in the Boston area.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trials
A listing of trials endorsed by Memorial Sloan-Kettering in the New York area.
The Mayo Clinic's Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trials
Covering a great expanse of topics, the Mayo Clinic's registered trials are listed here.
insurance advocacy & assistance
Ovarian Cancer Prescription Drug Financial Assistance Programs
support groups
Bald Is Beautiful
SHARE Cancer Support—Self-Help for Women with Breast and Ovarian Cancer
MD Anderson's Ovarian Cancer Support Group
DailyStrength—Online Ovarian Cancer Support
Look Good...Feel Better
Strength for Caring: A Place for Caregivers
Friends of Mel Foundation
wig suppliers & personal care
The Salon at 10 Newbury, Boston, MA
Surviving HairLoss
TLC Direct
Hats With Hair
Healing Threads
