Working as a cancer patient advocate has helped me better understand which cancer prevention information should be highlighted during my speaking engagements and writings. At a recent event where I was selling my book, I met a woman who was just finishing her ovarian cancer treatment. While the work I now do focuses on cancer risk factors and cancer prevention, it still resonates with cancer patients and survivors as they want to know what they can do to move on from their disease for good. So when I spoke with this lovely woman (shout out to her) I ensured I framed some of these cancer prevention points on inflammation's role in ovarian cancer, and how anti-inflammatory drugs play a role.  Ovarian Cancer: Caused by Inflammation and Do Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Help? The question I get from most cancer patients is "how do I

With it being one of the deadliest cancers in women, it's the fifth most common cause of cancer death in women, and remains a conundrum because of how difficult it is to treat. In this article, we will discuss ovarian cancer stages, symptoms, survival rates, and causes, and of course, what you can do for your personal ovarian cancer prevention plan. Ovarian Cancer: Stages, Symptoms, and Survival Rates Early detection is often difficult, with less than 30% of women diagnosed in the early stages of the disease, which is stage I (localized to the ovaries) or stage II (metastasis to the pelvis). A woman's chance of survival is better when it is detected early because the data shows the 10-year survival rate is projected to be 50 - 70% at these early stages. Early detection is key, because the stage III or