Why This Matters:

Breast cancer receives widespread attention, funding, and awareness—rightfully so. But ovarian cancer, though more deadly and often harder to detect, remains in the shadows. Many women suffer in silence, feeling invisible while their lives are equally devastated.

These cancers are not separate issues. They share genetic links, risk factors (like BRCA mutations), and emotional tolls. Some women fight both. Yet awareness campaigns, research efforts, and funding streams rarely acknowledge this overlap.

As a [survivor/family member/advocate], I believe it’s time for national cancer campaigns, foundations, and public health agencies to integrate breast and ovarian cancer awareness—not keep them in separate boxes.

What We’re Asking:

That major cancer organizations and government health departments (CDC, NIH, NCI) include ovarian cancer messaging in breast cancer awareness campaigns.
That awareness months and fundraising efforts highlight the genetic and emotional connection between breast and ovarian cancer.
That survivors of both diseases are visible, heard, and supported equally.

All women’s health matters—not just the cancers we’re used to seeing in pink. Add teal. Add truth. Add all of us.

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As a woman, i have always seen so much media coverage, awareness, fundraisers, support etc for Breast Cancer.
As an Ovarian Cancer survivor, I had not seen any, before diagnosis, and that was only because i sought It out.

Did you know these facts about Ovarian Cancer?

 1. Deadliest Gynecologic Cancer: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of all gynecologic cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates due to late detection.
 2. No Reliable Screening Test: Unlike breast cancer (with mammograms), there is no standard or effective screening test for early-stage ovarian cancer.
 3. Often Diagnosed Late: Over 70% of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed at Stage III or IV—when the disease has already spread and is harder to treat.
 4. Common Symptoms Are Vague: Symptoms like bloating, pelvic pain, feeling full quickly, and urinary urgency are often dismissed or mistaken for less serious conditions.
 5. Genetic Link with Breast Cancer: Mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes significantly increase a woman’s risk for both breast and ovarian cancer.
 6. High Recurrence Rate: Even after successful treatment, recurrence is common—especially in later stages. This makes long-term follow-up and support critical.
 7. Underfunded and Under-Researched: Ovarian cancer receives significantly less research funding than breast cancer, despite its high mortality rate.
 8. Survivorship is Often Overlooked: Because survival rates are lower, there are fewer long-term survivors to advocate, leading to less visibility and support.

If you read this far, I hope you realize that this is not to take away at all from ther importance and need from Breast Cancer awareness, research and finding a cure, if you know me at all, you know my heart and I would never take away from anyone else.

My hope is to join together in the fight for the women left behind. The women whose voices have not been heard, because they haven’t survuced to carry on the fight!

I am so incredibly lucky that my cancer was found, by accident, as i had no symptoms, but this is NOT the norm!

There needs to be somee kind of screening to find it in the early stages.

I have prayed to let there be a reason for what i have been through, and will continue to go through…maybe this is it. Idk, but i know that i have to do something for the ones we’ve lost, the ones fighting now, and the ones I pray will have the early detection screening and cure! 

Thank you,
Janel ❤️

Sign this petition if you believe in equal visibility, equal funding, and equal compassion.