Another outstanding organization that the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance is affiliated with! We’d like to thank HOPE in Oklahoma for all their hard work this past year and wish them luck with their future efforts to educate and spread awareness of ovarian cancer.

HOPE in Oklahoma was first organized in 2001 as an ovarian cancer nonprofit and has since expanded its educational and awareness efforts to all gynecologic cancers. Their ovarian cancer awareness efforts, however, have been most aggressive in the past year to educate women and their doctors about the disease’s vague symptoms. HOPE has set up literature display booths at many events in Oklahoma, including the Oklahoma City Home & Garden Show, People Connected by Cancer, and Cervical and Breast Cancer Awareness day at the state capitol and at the Oklahoma City Junior League Mistletoe Market.  Approximately 3,500 women were reached by handing out symptom cards for ovarian cancer in 2009.

We also want to thank them for their plans to reach every OB/GYN, internist, and family physician in Oklahoma. HOPE plans to mail approximately one hundred thousand ovarian cancer symptom cards to doctors all over the state. By asking doctors to hand out these cards personally, it will give them and their patients an opportunity to learn and discuss the all-too-often overlooked indicators of ovarian cancer.  What an excellent way to educate the community about ovarian cancer!

If we haven’t said it enough, thank you, HOPE in Oklahoma. Your efforts are appreciated and inspirational to our cause.

For more information about HOPE in Oklahoma, contact Marilyn Dewey, President, at P.O. Box 94614, Oklahoma City, OK 73143, or email marsmidew@pldi.net.