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Ovarian Cancer Australia

Ovarian Cancer Australia is an independent national not-for-profit organization, supporting women diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Our focus is to provide care and support for those affected by ovarian cancer; and represent them by leading change. Our vision is to save lives and ensure no woman with ovarian cancer walks alone.

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ACTO – Alleanza contro il Tumore Ovarico

Fondata nel 2010 da un gruppo di pazienti e ginecologi oncologi, Acto – Alleanza contro il Tumore Ovarico è la prima rete nazionale di associazioni pazienti composta da 7 realtà unite dalla comune missione di dare sostegno alle donne colpite da neoplasie ginecologiche.

Sono tanti i progetti e i servizi che insieme realizziamo per informare ed educare ogni donna sui tumori dell’ovaio e sui tumori ginecologici, per facilitare l’accesso alle cure migliori, per aumentare la qualità di vita delle pazienti durante il percorso di cura, per promuovere la ricerca scientifica e per dare voce ai diritti e ai bisogni insoddisfatti delle donne malate e delle loro famiglie portandole all’attenzione dell’ opinione pubblica e delle istituzioni nazionali e regionali.

Tutte insieme condividiamo un sogno: cambiare il futuro di queste neoplasie e il destino di tante donne che ne sono state colpite.

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Deutsche Stiftung Eierstockkrebs

The Ovarian Cancer Foundation works to ensure that patients and their relatives as well as all those involved in the health system are better and more specifically informed about this disease.

Foundation goals:

Inform

About 7500 women a year in Germany suffer from ovarian cancer, yet this disease is completely unknown to most of those affected and their relatives. The quality of treatment has a direct influence on the prognosis of the disease, meaning both surgical and drug therapy. Inclusion in clinical studies also guarantees the quality and competence of therapists and offers patients additional innovative treatment options.

Nevertheless, the current involvement of those affected in Germany is completely unsatisfactory.

The Ovarian Cancer Foundation works to ensure that patients and their relatives as well as all those involved in the health system are better and more specifically informed about this disease.

Education

Educating people with ovarian cancer about all treatment options and their alternatives with all their effects on their prognosis but also on their personal lives in everyday life is the indispensable basis for any therapeutic decision.

There are considerable deficits here for various reasons.

The Ovarian Cancer Foundation works to improve the education of patients and their relatives about the disease and the individual treatment steps.

Strengthening Research

In recent years, treatment outcomes in ovarian cancer have been significantly improved based on studies, but long-term outcomes in women with ovarian cancer are still unsatisfactory.

The majority of women with ovarian cancer are only recognised in an advanced tumor stage and die of the disease.

Therefore, research activities in the field of ovarian cancer must be significantly intensified, both pre-clinical and clinical research projects have to be conceived.

The Ovarian Cancer Foundation works to promote innovative research projects in tumor biology, diagnostics, therapy and aftercare.

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