Ovarian cancer is not the ‘silent killer’ why we need to empower women to listen to their bodies Mika Simmons
Ovarian cancer took my mother, Rosemary Brennan, from us aged fifty-four years old. It was a short nine months but it was horrific. I was twenty-seven and it interrupted my life in ways it has taken me years to process.
Twenty years later the statistics of this disease - that ravages one of the the most sacred parts of a woman’s body - have barely changed. Each year, 300,000 women are diagnosed worldwide, with one in three being diagnosed too late. While chemotherapy treatments are progressing, there is still no accurate early detection test.