Know Your Ovarian Cancer Risk, for men and women

By request, a new thread for discussing this disease, its prevention and treatment, and any other relative posts. If you read the first thread, you already know I am totally in favor of women learning what foods to eat, what doctors to see, what to expect and what to demand. I hope anyone who has a personal connection with this disease will post, even if it's through a friend or acquaintance. If you have held the hand of a woman who was fighting this battle, you have an interest. If you have comforted someone who had a personal connection, you have an interest. If you are friends with or related to anyone who is female, you have a connection. Unless it is stopped, ovarian cancer will eventually touch all of us who are born of women. It need not be so hopeless. It can be controlled. There is a lot known, and dedicated professionals constantly seek to add to that knowledge base. For every woman who dies of ovarian cancer, there is a group of family and friends who want to keep it from reaching into the next generation. The silent killer can't forever defeat such efforts as are being mounted to stop it, but you are the army, you are the soldiers. If you are a man reading this, you need to know all that a woman needs to know, because someone you cherish could miss the symptoms or need a nudge to get it checked out. You could make the difference in your daughter's or granddaughter's life span by recognizing and acting upon certain signs likely to be overlooked, and by setting a good example by eating your broccoli! Ovarian cancer is almost impossible to detect, until it reaches a life threatening stage, but a simple blood test can show it to be present or not.