"They say once you hear the word cancer, you retain maybe 40 percent of the information that follows, but the words 'ovarian cancer' got through alright."
PUBLISHED October 22, 2019
Sherry Hanson has published hundreds of articles, essays and poems. In 2013 she won a MORE Award for excellence in reporting on musculoskeletal issues from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS). She also won the 2014 Paumanok Award for Poetry from Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY.
Sherry is a three-time survivor of ovarian cancer and volunteers in the “Survivors Teaching Students” program for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance of Oregon and Southwest Washington. She is also a volunteer Scientific Research Advocate for the Knight Cancer Institute, affiliated with Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon.
On May 19, 2009, I underwent abdominal surgery and was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer. Tests at home in Maine had produced all bad results, but I wasn’t any closer to a referral for surgery, so our previously planned stay in a small apartment near our son in Oregon got moved up. I left Maine Sunday night, May 17, saw a gynecological oncologist the next day and had surgery the following afternoon.Sherry is a three-time survivor of ovarian cancer and volunteers in the “Survivors Teaching Students” program for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance of Oregon and Southwest Washington. She is also a volunteer Scientific Research Advocate for the Knight Cancer Institute, affiliated with Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon.
They say once you hear the word cancer, you retain maybe 40 percent of the information that follows, but the words “ovarian cancer” got through alright. It was like a bomb going off and life changed forever.
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