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Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month 1st – 31st March 2019

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About 7,300 women are diagnosed each year in the UK
4,100 women lose their lives each year – that’s 11 women every day
A woman in the UK has a one in 50 chance of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in her lifetime
In 2019, the Target Ovarian Cancer Organisation are running the “TAKE OVAR” campaign in order to raise awareness, fund research and save lives this March.
According to the organisation, the earlier a woman is diagnosed with ovarian cancer the more likely she will respond to treatment. But most women are diagnosed once the disease has already spread, and one in five is diagnosed too late for any treatment at all. Without a serious boost in awareness, women will continue to be diagnosed too late.
The team work to raise the profile of ovarian cancer, spread the word about the symptoms, and train GPs in early diagnosis.
For more information surrounding ovarian cancer please visit the Target Ovarian Cancer or NHS websites:
https://www.targetovariancancer.org.uk/fundraising/ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-2019
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ovarian-cancer/
RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from ovarian cancer, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
JOURNALS
  • Clinical ovarian cancer and other gynecologic malignancies, New York : Elsevier Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2008 onwards]
  • Clinical ovarian & other gynecologic cancer [formerly: Clinical ovarian cancer], New York : Elsevier Inc. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2012 onwards]
  • The Lancet, London: Lancet Publishing Group. [Available in print 1898 – 2015, and as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1992 onwards]
  • Clinical Ovarian Cancer [now: Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer], New York : Elsevier Inc. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2008  - 2011]
  • Journal of gynecologic oncology nursing, College Grove, Tenn. : Society of Gynecologic Nurse Oncologists. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2005 onwards]
  • Gynecologic oncology, Amsterdam : Elsevier. [Available in print 1996 – 1999, as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards]
  • Gynecologic Oncology Reports, Amsterdam : Elsevier. [Available as a Keele ejournal & NHS ejournal 2014 onwards]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Barnett, Richard, “Ovarian cancer”, The Lancet, 2016, Vol.387(10025), pp.1265-1265. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Hildebrand, Janet S. ; Wallace, Kristin ; Graybill, Whitney S. ; Kelemen, Linda E., “Racial disparities in treatment and survival from ovarian cancer”, Cancer Epidemiology, 2019, Vol.58, pp.77-82. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Hamilton, William ; Menon, Usha, “Ovarian cancer”, British Medical Journal, 2010, Vol.340(7737), pp.96- 97. [Available in print, and via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Melamed, Alexander ; Keating, Nancy L. ; Clemmer, Joel T. ; Bregar, Amy J. et al, “Laparoscopic staging for apparent stage I epithelial ovarian cancer”, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2017, Vol.216(1), pp.50.e1-50.e12. [Available via a Keele ejournals]
  • Spriggs, David R ; Zivanovic, Oliver, “Ovarian Cancer Treatment — Are We Getting Warmer?”, The New England Journal of Medicine, 2018, Vol.378(3), pp.293-294. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Hartge, Patricia ; Speyer, James L, “Finding Ovarian Cancer”, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2012, Vol. 104(2), pp.82-83. [Available in print, and via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Goldstein, C.L. ; Susman, E. ; Lockwood, S. ; Medlin, E.E. ; Behbakht, K.; “Awareness of symptoms and risk factors of ovarian cancer in a population of women and healthcare providers”, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2015, Vol. 19(2), pp.206-12. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Andersen, M.R. et. Al. “Cancer Risk Awareness and Concern among Women with a Family History of Breast or Ovarian Cancer”, Behavioral Medicine, 2016; Vol. 42(1), pp.18-28. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE
CURRENT AWARENESS
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