{"id":740,"date":"2012-11-26T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=740"},"modified":"2012-11-26T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:12:22","slug":"target-ovarian-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2012\/target-ovarian-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Ovarian Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Cartlidg<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-742\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/45TargetOvarianCancerweb-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/45TargetOvarianCancerweb-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/45TargetOvarianCancerweb.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>e came to speak to the Club about Ovarian Cancer and the work of the charity Target Ovarian Cancer. Amy (pictured here on the left next to Club President Helen Byrne)\u00a0is the Fundraising Manager for the charity and was able to give us in\u00a0depth information about this terrible disease that kills 4,500 women in the UK every year (compared to 950 women who die each year from cervical cancer). For more information see the Soroptimist International Great Britain &amp; Ireland website <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/2012\/ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-march-2012\/\">www.sigbi.org\/2012\/ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-march-2012\/<\/a>\u00a0and the Target Ovarian Cancer website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.targetovariancancer.org.uk\/\">www.targetovariancancer.org.uk\/<\/a>\u00a0Soroptimists are working with charities like Target to raise awareness of the disease which could save 3,000 lives\/year. March is Ovarian Cancer Awarness Month &#8211; so join in with any events to support this deserving cause.<\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that the key symptoms to be aware of are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Persistent pelvic or abdominal pain (that\u2019s your tummy and below)<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Increased abdominal size\/persistent bloating \u2013 not bloating that comes and goes<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Urinary symptoms (needing to wee more urgently or often than usual)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Occasionally there can be other symptoms such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Changes in bowel habit<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Extreme fatigue (feeling very tired)<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unexplained weight loss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Cartlidge came to speak to the Club about Ovarian Cancer and the work of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Target Ovarian Cancer | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Target Ovarian Cancer : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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