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Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month - March 2025

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According to the charity, Ovarian Cancer Action, approximately 7,500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK each year, with only 3 in 10 women living beyond 10 years after diagnosis.  In light of this, the charity launched Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which takes place in March each year.  The campaign aims to raise awareness of ovarian cancer symptoms and statistics.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 BOOKS   


 JOURNALS   

  • Journal of gynecologic oncology; Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology, issuing body – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards, and as a NHS e-journal 2008 onwards.]
  • Gynecologic oncology (Online); Society of Gynecologic Oncologists; (Elsevier) – [available in print at the Health Library, Royal Stoke from 1996 to 1999, Keele e-journal from 1995 onwards and UHNM e-journal 2007 onwards.]

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. 

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

 PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

 KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/

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