Ovarian cancer

Johnson & Johnson's baby powder is not the innocuous product we once thought. It is linked to cancer.

A new report has suggested that regular tests for ovarian cancer could save more than 200 lives each year.

The Australian Women’s Weekly have joined with L’Oreal Paris to raise much needed funds to support of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation in their effort to find an early detection test.

Model Elly Mayday, who battled ovarian cancer two years ago has now been diagnosed with cancer again, announcing the news on social media today.

Today is World Ovarian Cancer Day. To bring the issue into focus, we share our chat with Elly Mayday the plus size model, who was about to break into the big-time when cancer struck.

The plan, which has been developed in consultation with ovarian cancer researchers and women living with the disease, provides a roadmap for research priorities across a number of areas. About 1000 women die from ovarian cancer each year in Australia and only 43 out of every 100 women diagnosed are still alive five years after […]

Tampons could help doctors detect early-stage ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.

The seven-year study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, looked at more than 1100 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005 and found that the mortality rate for country women was 20 per cent higher than women in a metropolitan area. It also found just 35 per cent of rural based women lived for […]

Actress Angelina Jolie has spoken out about her decision to have a double preventative mastectomy last year.

An Australian woman who was left infertile after undergoing ovarian cancer treatment is pregnant with twins after a world first ovarian tissue graft. Vali, 27, requested her ovarian tissue be frozen to preserve her fertility when cancer treatment forced her ovaries to lose function and eventually be removed. The cancer treatment left her menopausal at […]