PHOTO: JOHN LEWISA Dunedin woman with ovarian cancer is calling on legislators and decision-makers to start taking the disease more seriously. While having ongoing treatment and surgeries, she has co-founded Ovarian Cancer Awareness NZ and founded Cure Our Ovarian Cancer, a charity that raises funds globally for research into her disease. "Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynaecological cancer, and kills more women than New Zealand’s annual road toll, and more than melanoma. One of the most significant issues around ovarian cancer was the lack of knowledge about it, she said. "In 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, the HRC has not funded any ovarian cancer research at all."

Source: Otago Daily Times August 26, 2020 23:15 UTC