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Ella has shared her experience of endometrial cancer. It’s a cancer that’s sharply on the rise among young Australian women, and there is an urgent need to stop that happening.
I was diagnosed when I was 31 and had been having period pain so extreme it would make me fall to my knees.
After I was diagnosed, and told about treatment options, I chose to have a hysterectomy. I cried all day and kept questioning my decision. I chose to get rid of the cancer and try to make the most of my life, but I’d lose the option to have babies.
I wasn’t prepared for the grief. Grief for the interruption to my life, grief because my choice about having children was taken away, grief on behalf of my parents who were really affected by the thought of not having grandchildren.
I wish things were different. I really wish this cancer was talked about more. That’s why I’m doing things publicly to increase awareness and education about endometrial cancer.
I’m supporting ANZGOG | WomenCan because I know there are things we can do to get more awareness, more prevention, and more funding for research.
These things can stop young women like me from having to endure endometrial cancer, and I hope you’ll help by donating today.
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Your support is urgently needed to stop the rise of endometrial cancer, and save the lives of women like Ella.
Every day in Australia, nearly ten women are diagnosed with endometrial cancer, and two women lose their lives to the disease.
In the past ten years, Australia alone has experienced an almost 40% increase in endometrial cancer diagnoses
Incidence is rising fastest among younger women, with diagnoses in women aged 25–44 projected to increase by around 60% in the next decade.
Help stop the rise of endometrial cancer. Donate today.
There’s no ONE way to stop endometrial cancer.
You can help fund FIVE of them with a donation today
1. Risk Factors
The EDEN Project brings researchers together to investigate risk factors like obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome and genetic markers. The goal is to be able to lower a woman’s risk of developing endometrial cancer.
2. Early Detection
The EDEN project aims to raise awareness of endometrial cancer symptoms. Researchers also want to develop better diagnostic tools – like screening for high-risk patients – so every woman has the best chance of catching her cancer
when it is still treatable.
3. Primary Treatment
EDEN’s researchers are working to find better, more targeted treatment options that will
increase a woman’s chances of survival while reducing the toll on her body.
4. Recurrence
That’s why EDEN’s researchers are
conducting research and clinical trials to find more personalised treatment options for women whose cancer has come back. By understanding why some cancers resist treatment, they hope to can develop smarter therapies that keep women cancer-free
for good.
5. Survivorship
The final pillar of the EDEN Initiative is about collecting this information so that doctors can better care for their patients after treatment.
Please fund the vital EDEN initiative by donating today
Your gift will fund research, education and awareness programs that are saving women's lives.
"I'm so grateful to be on this trial that have kept the cancer stable. I've been feeling great and have been living a relatively 'normal' life doing the things I enjoy with the people I love."
Alex
"Research is everything when it comes to finding viable treatments for women like me. Without research, this drug trial that I am on would not exist and I would have died by now."
Christine
"I had this ticking time bomb in my pelvis, meanwhile, my children were still so young. I was determined to fight for more time with them"
- Ali
