October sees the celebration of Frocktober for ovarian cancer awareness. As we’re a women's health organisation we had to do an episode talking about it.
In this episode of The Hidden World of Women, Emma is joined by former host: Melanie Brown!
Melanie shares her story losing a friend to ovarian cancer and caring for someone who was dying. This experience prompted her to start participating in Frocktober, a month long event of wearing dresses every day to raise awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research.
This year Melanie is spending the month wearing her wedding dress. She talks about the experience of doing something so outrageous as a generally introverted person.
As Melanie and Emma are both passionate about healthcare, self advocacy and women's health they talked about the experience of being a patient and caring for a patient and as always the episode goes places that were unexpected and unplanned 😀
Here are the links Melanie mentioned in this episode:
Understanding ovarian cancer booklet (PDF): https://www.cancer.org.au/assets/pdf/understanding-ovarian-cancer-booklet
Latest research on a potential new blood test for ovarian cancer: https://www.ocrf.com.au/news/107/melbourne-team-on-the-verge-more-accurate-ovarian-cancer-test
Link between ovarian cancer & endometriosis: https://www.ocrf.com.au/news/108/ovarian-cancer-versus-endometriosis
The Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation: https://www.ocrf.com.au/
Frocktober general info: https://www.ocrf.com.au/get-involved/fundraise-for-ovarian-cancer-research/frocktober
My Frocktober fundraising page: https://www.frocktober.org.au/my-fundraising/3516/melanie-brown
Instagram: @meljrobson
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