2013 is the inaugural year for the Globe-athon: The Walk to End Women’s Cancer. The brainchild of a gynecologic oncologist in Washington D.C., the seeds of the Globe-athon were planted a few years ago when he organized a 72-hour relay around the U.S. Capitol with a few colleagues to help promote the annual National Race to [...]
Friends, The Globe-athon to End Women’s Cancers is more than just a walk. It is an international movement that’s bringing the world together to end women's cancers, one step at a time. Advocacy groups, healthcare professionals, survivors, and the general public alike are unifying their efforts to foster public awareness and education for gynecologic cancers [...]
Three weeks ago my mom and best friend was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer. My immediate family of 5 have always lived in a little bubble thinking we were almost invincible, but when my mom was diagnosed our lives were turned upside down. She is so inspirational, and through chemo and radiation she continues [...]
My name is Nneka Scroggins, and I am a DOCS, Daughter of an Ovarian Cancer Survivor. Mommy inspires me to live, love, and laugh, and it is so fitting that I was given the name Nneka, which means mother’s love is best. Nearly 17 years ago, Mommy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and I’d like [...]
“Missed by Many, Loved by All” Nancy Regester Yeary (1955-2010) The Globe-athon would not have been possible without the generous support of Bob Yeary, who was inspired by his wife’s battle with ovarian cancer to found the Nancy Yeary Women’s Cancer Research Foundation in her memory. By all accounts, Nancy was a remarkable woman who [...]
My name is Kirby Leigh Jacobs and I am a senior at the University of Michigan in the Ross School of Business. My mom is my best friend, hero, the strongest/most beautiful woman I know and also has Ovarian Cancer. I feel like the luckiest girl to have her as my mom, but I hope [...]
I am a daydreamer, a reformed worrier, an optimistic realist, a "what-iffer," a writer. I am a mother and a wife and a grandmother, a storyteller and a writing mentor, a slow but constant reader and a quick study. I am also an ovarian cancer survivor. It is the least of who I am but [...]
I am a young, reasonably healthy woman. However, I’ve had a recent realization of just how little I really know about my body. When I started working for a media production company in Washington, D.C. this spring, one of my first tasks was helping to wrap up production on No Evidence of Disease, our GYN [...]
“Cancer is not a game of winners and losers. If you live you “win” and if you die you “lose”? How inappropriate is that?” Dr. Michael Wosnick - In honor of our dear loving friend, Vivian V. A close family friend passed away last week, someone who I admired greatly. She was an intelligent, passionate, driven woman. [...]
