Feature Stories
Learn about new initiatives underway to overcome ovarian cancer, and meet people who are committed to making a difference.
This season, Heather Heaps and her husband Frank are generously matching each contribution to Ovarian Cancer Canada’s gift of awareness campaign.
This holiday season, ban bad gifts while ramping up awareness of ovarian cancer.
When he was growing up in the town of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Marc Michaels says his mother Frances Doudelet was known as “the person who gave everybody a chance” when others had given up on them.
To celebrate five years cancer-free from early stage ovarian cancer, in 2008 Marilyn Sapsford put fuchsia & teal streaks in her hair and fulfilled a dream: she flung herself out of a plane at 13,500 feet tethered to a professional skydiver.
You can hear the excitement in Leslie Schroeder’s voice as she talks about the milestones and adventures 2013 has in store for her.
It’s mid-January – time to start living up to those New Year’s resolutions.
Honour the most important women in your life and help support the work of Ovarian Cancer Canada by planning to attend LOVE HER in 2014!
September’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, as declared by the Parliament of Canada, is under way and it promises to be the most exciting and impactful ever!
In honour and memory of his wife Judy Broom, who died of ovarian cancer in 2008, Dr. Eric Broom will generously match each contribution, dollar-for-dollar, made before the end of the year to Ovarian Cancer Canada up to $10,000.
Stunned, surprised, honoured, tearful – and mostly, humbled. That’s how Helen Ferris of Saskatoon and twin sisters Cindy Sanchez and Christa Slatnik of Winnipeg felt when they got the news that they had been selected as 2013 recipients of the Ovarian Cancer Canada Peggy Truscott Award of Hope.