Advocating for Better Outcomes: Ovarian Cancer and You

Many parts of your life can affect your health and your cancer risk. Things like your race, ethnicity, where you live, and your finances matter. Even so, how can you get the health care you need and lower your cancer risk? What should you and your family do if you need to speak up?

Join this special talk about knowing your risk, ovarian cancer care, and ways we can speak up to improve our health. provided by two experts from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and SHARE.

1. What is Ovarian Cancer? 1

2. 2 Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) https://ocrahope.org/patients/about-ovarian-cancer/risk-factors/

3. Risk-Reducing Salpingo -Oophorectomy (RRSO) is the Gold Standard for Preventing Ovarian Cancer Kauff ND, et al. NEJM. 2002.346(21):1609-15.; Domchek SM, et al., JAMA 2010: 304(9):967-975. Callahan MJ, et al. J Clin Oncol . 2007;25(25):3985-3990.

4. How do we treat Ovarian Cancer? 12.10.2018 4 Surgery Chemotherapy Targeted therapies PARP inhibitors MSK PowerPoint Template Instructions

5. Disparities exist in genetic t esting in ovarian c ancer 5 Frey et al. Genetic Testing for All: Overcoming Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Genetic Testing. 2022