The Whisper Network :: An Ovarian Cancer Community Blog

Wish Upon A Star

I spent this afternoon accompanying a friend to a pelvic ultrasound. She is in her early 50’s and does not have ovarian cancer – though we didn’t know that for sure when we set out. At a recent visit to her gynecologist for a routine pelvic exam her doctor blurted out, “I can feel something [...]

Breast feeding may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer

Breastfeeding appears to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to a recent study. Pregnancy itself reduces the risk of ovarian cancer but if a woman goes on to breast feed she reduces her risk of ovarian cancer even more. The longer she breastfeeds, the more she reduces her risk of ovarian cancer up until 12 [...]

Tricks of the Trade To Get You Through the Dark Days

There were all sorts of tricks we learned to manage our way through my mother’s post-chemo days. So ingrained to our lifestyle did they become we stopped thinking of them as tricks; they were how we lived. Then recently while discussing with a friend how to navigate a several day post-chemotherapy period what sounded obvious [...]

Maintenance Chemotherapy Probably Doesn’t Work

Continuing chemotherapy in patients who have responded well to the first round of treatment in hopes that it will stave off a relapse doesn’t work, a recent study has found. But here’s the rub. This study contradicts a previous study which had suggested – but not proven – there might be a benefit to ongoing chemotherapy [...]

New Chemo Regimen May Extend Lives of Ovarian Cancer Patients

Researchers may have found a way to extend the lives of ovarian cancer patients using existing drugs simply by changing their chemotherapy regimen, a recent study has found. The current standard therapy gives women a dose of both carboplatin and paclitaxel every three weeks. The study compared women on that regimen to those given a weekly [...]