September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. Please see below to learn more about this disease.
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As part of our Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month activities, you are invited to complete an online survey/questionnaire regarding ovarian cancer.
Once you complete the survey, your name will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $100 Walmart gift cards. The survey will close on October 1st. Winners of the gift cards will be notified by October 8th.
Ovarian Cancer Facts
Symptoms can vary and often depend on the location of the tumor and its impact on the surrounding organs. Many ovarian cancer symptoms mimic those of less life-threatening conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome. Early recognition of symptoms is the best way to save women's lives.
Bloating, discomfort, or feeling of fullness
*See a doctor if any symptoms last more than 2-3 weeks.
*Ovarian cancer survival rates are much lower than other cancers that affect women because it is so hard to detect.
*Ovarian cancer has an overall 46% five-year survival rate compared to breast cancer’s overall survival rate of nearly 90%
*Fewer than 20 percent of ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed early. The Pap smear only checks for cervical cancer.
*When ovarian cancer is caught before it has spread outside the ovaries, 92% will survive 5 years.
*American Cancer Society shows about 15,500 women will die this year alone and more than 22,280 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed.
*The five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer has increased by only 8% in the last 30 years.
For more information click on a link below:
www.ovarian.org
www.ovariancancer.org
www.ocrf.org
Brother Francis Kannamkulam, V.C.
Bishop McCort Catholic High School is sponsoring Brother Francis Kannamkulam, V.C. who resides in Kerala, India. In India there is no shortage of vocations, but rather a shortage of funds to educate their seminarians. The Vincentian Congregation modeled after St. Vincent de Paul aids seminarians in tuition costs for their priestly vocations. Each month $30.00 from BMCHS is supplying a gracious contribution to the seminarian’s twelve year formation program, in which Brother Kannamkulam is advanced into his fifth year and currently studying philosophy. With sponsorship, Brother Kannamkulam remembers BMCHS in his daily prayers and Masses, as well as written correspondence. BMCHS has adopted Brother Kannamkulam and prays for God’s continuing grace to be bestowed upon him on his path toward priesthood.
As part of our Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month activities, you are invited to complete an online survey/questionnaire regarding ovarian cancer.
Once you complete the survey, your name will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $100 Walmart gift cards. The survey will close on October 1st. Winners of the gift cards will be notified by October 8th. Click here for the survey.
