It was encouraging to see the subject of ovarian cancer become elevated from lowly wallflower to centre of attention at a popular fundraising party held Thursday night to support research into the deadly female disease.
Prophylactic removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes is now the recommended way to treat certain people at high risk of ovarian cancer. I’m about to find out what it’s like.
From the time they get a referral by a general practitioner to seeing a specialist to ultimately getting treatment, Canadian patients waited an average of 27.4 weeks in 2022.