TellEveryAmazingLady

Tell Every Amazing Lady's mission is to promote awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, to enable early detection, and to help find the cure for this deadly disease.

The way in which we draw attention to this critical disease -- which is the leading cause of death from a gynecological cancer for women -- is through our annual T.E.A.L. Walk. This year's event will be our second, and all proceeds from the September 11, 2010 T.E.A.L. Walk will be donated to The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

My sister, Pamela Esposito and I, Louisa M. McGregor in 2008, started Tell Every Amazing Lady, or T.E.A.L. --. After my diagnosis in 2007, we were both shocked to learn that the prognosis for this cancer is so poor because doctors lack the knowledge, understanding, and tools to detect the disease early when survival chances are best. We began to understand that there was a vicious cycle at work, almost as insidious as the disease itself; lack of awareness, lack of treatment options, and lack of ability to diagnose come down to lack of funding for research.

The ribbon color associated with ovarian cancer is teal, hence the name T.E.A.L., or Tell Every Amazing Lady.

The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund is the leading independent agency dedicated to advancing ovarian cancer research in the United States. Since 1998, OCRF has awarded over $28 million in grants to 128 of the brightest women and men in the field today at over 40 leading medical centers across the country. OCRF was founded in 1994 by Sol Schreiber to honor the memory of his wife Ann, and with special tribute to our late president and editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Liz Tilberis.

For up-to-date information about OCRF’s research, educational, and fundraising activities, please visit www.ocrf.org.