These stories are heart felt, poignant, and empowering.  These generous people have decided to do their part in the battle against ovarian cancer by allowing Pinksunrise to share their experiences in the hopes that it will help another person.

We can learn a tremendous amount from these courageous and brave people. Their experiences serve as the manifesto by which we should continue in our battle to make TVUs (transvaginal ultrasounds) and early screening for ovarian cancer a reality.

Let's make their stories count, let them have a legacy.

• TVU's best to find ovarian cancer
  TVU's cited as the best way to detect ovarian cancer in Reuters news article. Recent research presented this week at a San Diego meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists suggesting that ultrasound may be that test. Find out more.

  Mother and Daughter, Together Fight the Battle
  "My name is Debbie Adams. My mom was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer in May.She has and still is going through a horrible battle of trying to save her life or at least live long enough to see her 6 grandchildren grow up." Find out more.

• Save a Life - Yours!
  The role of fertility drugs & ovarian cancer. Liz Tilberis, in her book No Time To Die, chronicles her 6 year battle with ovarian cancer.  As the editor of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar her book received much recognition; as one of the few books about ovarian cancer it stands out. She illustrates the possible connection between fertility drugs the increased chance of ovarian cancer. Her life could have possibly been saved with the early use of a screening test that is ALREADY available in most doctors offices but that most doctors will not tell you about and most insurance companies will not pay for.
  Find out more and save a life - YOURS!

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Ovarian Cancer Awareness
What are the signs and symptoms of this hidden killer. Early diagnosis is the key. Find out more

Breast Cancer Facts
separating fact from fiction
by Sue Spataro, RN, BSN
There is so much in the media that scares the living life out of us. Breast   cancer is one topic that manages to catch all of our attention. The media report all the bad news and statistics but neglect to tell us what they really mean.

No Time to Die
by Liz Tilberis, Aimee Lee Ball

Liz Tilberis, the editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar magazine, was at the pinnacle of her career when diagnosed with ovarian cancer, one of the disease's deadliest forms. ("When ovarian cancer is detected early, the cure rate is high: at least a 90 percent five-year survival rate for Stage I diagnosis. At Stage IV, they tell you to go home and get your affairs in order," she writes.) In 1993, the day after holding a gala holiday dinner for the likes of Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, Tilberis underwent exploratory surgery that revealed her cancer was at Stage III. Since then, she has survived three recurrences, massive doses of chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant.

Tilberis's book is notable not only for the sanguine humor which she injects throughout, but also for her honesty regarding what she suspects was the cause of her cancer: fertility treatments with the hormone-stimulating drugs Clomid and Pergonal, which she points out are still widely used. (She never conceived a child, but is the mother of two adopted sons.) Tilberis is especially cutting with her descriptions of her coworkers' chilliness and lack of empathy when she first returned to work. It seems that AIDS causes notwithstanding, the world of fashion is still incapable of admitting there is suffering in the world. Tilberis also deserves praise for confessing that her infertility is due to fallopian tube scarring from pelvic inflammatory disease--often caused by sexually transmitted diseases.

No Time to Die and Liz Tilberis are inspiring. While her cancer is in no certain way vanquished, Tilberis chooses to treat it as a chronic condition, not a killer. She's made it her mission to use her magazine platform and her position as president of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund to raise awareness of a complicated and frightening--but possibly preventable--disease. This book is as much a tale of survival and sang-froid as it is an excoriation of the cruelties of the two-faced world of fashion.

I'm Too Young to Get Old:
Health Care for Women After Forty
by Judith Reichman

Reichman has practiced obstetrics and gynecology for more than 20 years. From that extensive background, she addresses the most problematic aspects of health and aging for women over 40 in this reader-friendly book. She details the facts of contraception and fertility for midlife women and the risks and complications involved in later-life pregnancy and delivery in the book's first section, and in the second, she examines menopause, providing an unusually thorough discussion of how hormones work and their varying levels during perimenopause as well as detailed scrutiny of hormone replacement therapy and its alternatives.