So it's no surprise that, in the last three months of her life, friends and colleagues found themselves helping her to create a multimedia campaign to raise awareness of the disease that was to take her life — ovarian cancer. Now featuring on TV, billboards and in magazines, I Will Survive is the biggest campaign charity, Ovarian Cancer Action, has run in its ten-year history. It has a cast of young girls, 'representing' the next generation of ovarian cancer patients, who speak the lyrics of Gloria Gaynor anthem, I Will Survive. However, an Ovarian Cancer Action spokesman says: 'More than two-thirds of ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is commonly treated with both surgery and chemotherapy, but in 26 per cent of cases it is with surgery alone.

Source: Daily Mail July 13, 2020 21:01 UTC