The whisper of a butterfly’s wings is often how the symptoms of ovarian cancer are described.
“The butterfly has become a symbol for ovarian cancer, because it was known as the silent disease, but as education of this disease has improved it’s now called the whispering and that’s why we release butterflies because the symptoms are vague and often, similar to the sound of a butterfly’s wings,” says Cherie Nettles, Ovarian Cancer Coalition board member and ovarian cancer survivor.
Ovarian cancer ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women and causes more deaths than any other gynecological cancer. Each year almost 20,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and of those more than 13,000 will lose their lives. One in 78 women will develop some form of ovarian cancer in their lifetime…