Ways to stay up-to-date with WORD!
June 23, 2008
As a non-profit startup dedicated to keeping our friends, donors, and partners up-to-date, WORD is looking at multiple ways to limit overhead and increase ownership! We hope to increase the number of informative emails, increase content on the web-site, and increase those who receive these updates.
Open Letter to Friends of WORD!
June 23, 2008
Dear Friend,
In the State of Indiana, 63% of all those diagnosed with cancer will survive more than five years. However, the five-year rate for those with ovarian cancer, a gynecologic cancer, is only 41%. Ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers, causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. With proper funding and an aggressive intervention strategy, many of these lives can and will be saved, literally saving thousands of women’s lives over the next five years. In one and half years, WORD has attempted to balance our part of the war against cancer between critical research and empowering education. We consistently help propel gynecologic cancer treatments, early diagnosis, and ultimately a cure with educating women with the signs and symptoms of gynecologic cancers to advocate for themselves and protect their loved ones. We believe the life-granting education goal is simple . . . that in Indiana every female over the age of 13 be empowered with the proper and current education of cervical, ovarian, uterine, and other gynecologic cancers.
Update on the Armed Services Program
April 17, 2008
Last December, it was with great pride that we announced that WORD would be receiving seed funding to launch the first phase of the Armed Services Gynecologic Cancer Health Protection Program! Since that announcement, WORD has been working diligently to prepare for the funding and the launch of the program. We have been working with our partners like Purdue University and Publicis Indianapolis to prepare the proper documentation. Below is a brief portion of some of our recent descriptions of the new program. Read more
The CDC’s INSIDE KNOWLEDGE Campaign
April 14, 2008
This past month in Tampa Bay we were able to attend a briefing of the Center for Disease Control’s new public awareness campaign funded by Johanna’s Law. As I (Nate) sat at the briefing, I had several thoughts sitting in the conference room listening about the new resources.
WORD heads to SGO!
April 3, 2008
The second week of March, doctors, scientists, advocates, and many more converged on Tampa Bay, Florida to attend the 2008 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer. WORD was grateful to be there for the first time as an organization. Many of our team go every year, but this year WORD went together. We even hosted a dinner to meet some advocacy leaders as we continue to develop partnerships that we hope will exponentially multiply the impact of the education resources that we will produce in the coming year.
Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Program
December 31, 2007
WORD is proud to begin a partnership with Dr. David Nolte (pictured) and his team from Purdue University and Quadraspec, Inc. Dr. Nolte is the inventor of the BioCD. As described on their website, “The BioCD performs molecular diagnostics in the form of a compact disc. The BioCD, invented in the Adaptive Optics and Biophotonics group at Purdue University, combines the simplicity of spinning-disc interferometry (SDI) with the power of antibodies to detect disease. A conventional compact disc has 5 billion diffraction-limited pits encoding digital information. The motivation behind the BioCD is to turn a disc into 5 billion micro-test-tubes to test for every type of blood protein in a few drops of blood. The science of molecular interferometry combines the physics of laser coherence, quantum optics, light-matter interactions, and surface science, with molecular biology and biomedical diagnostics.”
A Breakthrough Moment
November 21, 2007
Indianapolis, Indiana – November 19, 2007 - On Tuesday morning, November 13, Women’s Oncology Research & Development (WORD) experienced a “breakthrough” moment as President Bush signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act into law. This act included a grant of $1.6 million that will launch WORD’s Because She Should Know (BSSK) educational initiatives through the development of resources for the Armed Services Gynecological Cancer Health Protection Program. WORD is eager to begin developing with its partners the first phase of the BSSK initiatives to found the Armed Services Program, which will educate women about signs, symptoms, preventions, and treatments of gynecologic cancers. WORD’s vision includes using additional donated funds to augment the resources created for the Armed Services Program and utilizes these resources to ignite grassroots educational campaigns throughout the United States supporting both organizations and individuals dedicated to educating women about gynecologic cancers. Read more
Ovarian Cancer all over the News!
June 13, 2007
Symptoms Education Imperative for Earlier Diagnosis
INDIANAPOLIS, June 13 Women’s Oncology Research & Development is grateful acknowledge that for the first time there is a national consensus on ovarian cancer signs and symptoms being accepted and endorsed by the NIH. Often referred to as the “silent killer” due to the common belief that there are no warning signs or symptoms, ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecologic cancer.
“We have known that these are the signs and symptoms for years within gynecologic oncology community and we are grateful that this is finally coming to light,” say Dr. Kelly Manahan, WORD’s board president. She continues, “I hope that this continues to increase awareness and save lives. WORD is committed to educating hundreds of thousands of women about ovarian cancer as well as the other gynecologic cancers.”
These symptoms include:
– Bloating
– Pelvic or abdominal pain
– Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
– Urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency)
Women who have these symptoms almost daily for more than a few weeks should see their doctor, preferably a gynecologist. WORD would also encourage women to go to Women’s Cancer Network to learn more about gynecologic cancers.
This Week on WORDONCANCER.ORG
February 28, 2007
That’s Right, WORDONCANCER.ORG is back live. A few months ago we had a server failure and a hard drive failure that scrapped our web site. It is just now that we are getting the time to get our website back on-line and with text. If you have comments or questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at this
There has been quite a bit of national news in Women’s cancer news in the last few months. We have added a “Google News” java link at the bottom of our website, it is always scrolling through the newest news in gynecologic cancers. Please keep up-to-date on this ever chanign field.
