My Ovacome blog

Hello everyone,

All the team at Ovacome would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year. For some it will a year with challenges, but we are grateful to our wonderful members, so we can all face the year ahead secure in the knowledge that we have the love ...

The Ovacome office is open again and already we're back in the swing of things!

First up is the initial meeting of our younger women's support network happening in central London on the 19th January at 6pm. Ovacome is aware of the specific need to support young women with a diagnosis ...

A fabulous evening of live music, dancing and great food has been organised by ROCC Sue Martensz to raise money for Ovacome.

Sue lives in Croydon, London and works in the duty free zone at Gatwick Airport. She has used all her skills, friends and contacts to put together a great ...

Study Day at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Latha and I were fortunate enough to attend a study day at the Royal Marsden Hospital about gynaecological cancers on Monday. Although it was not just about ovarian cancer it did cover other gynaecolgical cancers which we sometimes get phone calls ...

Well, as much as I hate hearing Jingle Bells as I do my weekly shop in September, there is simply no getting away from Christmas in the office. Not that we are all whistling carols as we work you understand, rather that September sees the arrival of the Ovacome Christmas cards.

In ...

I had a really good day last Thursday (August 5) training two new ROCCs in our London office. They had lots to say about how ovarian cancer had affected their lives and were full of new insights, which is very inspiring.

They are Kiran Singh who lives in Harrow and runs her own ...

I attended the above conference,organised by the National Forum of Gynaecological Oncology Nurses at the beginning of the month. I was humbled by the level of committment of the group of clinical gynae nurse specialists who,not only organised the above conference;
they also organised an ...

Are you looking after an elderly relative or someone with a terminal illness?
Do you worry about the care they’re getting in hospital or at home?
Channel 4 is making a programme about care for the elderly and terminally ill.
If you are a friend, relative or carer of ...

Last week I made the journey north to Huddersfield to attend a nurses study day on ovarian cancer. The whole day was taken up with many different aspects of ovarian cancer. There were talks from a Pathologist, a Gynae/oncology surgeon, an Oncologist and a Radiologist to name but a few. The ...

Well the day has dawned - Members day 2010.

Each year we look forward to welcoming members from across the country to a day of information, sharing, learning, support and fun. This year's programme looks likely to deliver this, and more in spades. The NCVO is in a beautiful ...