Will you please help us fund life-saving research in memory of our loving wife, mother, 'Grandma Dot'?
In 2020, at the age of 76, our fun and kind mum, Grandma Dot, passed away, two years after receiving the devastating news that she had Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer. Mum, as she said herself in her final days, had a great life – from doting on her Grandchildren, her love of wining and dining with friends, travelling the world, to her strong passion for art, which lead to her spending 15 years of her later life volunteering at Jewish Care; teaching arts and crafts to the elderly.
She was a truly special lady with a huge heart and desire to help others. We are now making sure Grandma Dot's generous and humane attitude lives forever.
As a family, we are working alongside Beatson Cancer Charity, to ensure that Dot’s kind and selfless personality continues to excel in years to come. In mum’s memory, we are so proud to introduce the Dorothy Levine Research Fund into early diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer, which aims to give a better chance to women who will be diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in the future.
Donate here →Sadly, had mum been diagnosed a little earlier, her outcome may well have been different. Ovarian Cancer symptoms are often difficult to establish and diagnosis is frequently given at a stage where treatment options are limited. Ultimately, if diagnosed at the earliest stage, 9 in 10 women will survive, but two thirds of women are diagnosed late, when the cancer is harder to treat.
We want this to change. Every penny that you donate will provide research into improving ovarian cancer diagnosis - finding causes and spotting symptoms earlier so that a diagnosis can be made quicker.
“If ovarian and fallopian tube cancers can be detected early before they have spread, they have a high chance of being cured, but unfortunately some women are diagnosed with advanced cancer, at a point which is potentially incurable. Although the cancer can be controlled for a period of time, this requires intensive and prolonged treatments that can be debilitating in themselves. That is why it is so important that we find ways of diagnosing and treating women earlier as well as improving the therapies. This will require a combination of approaches from raising awareness of the symptoms amongst women and GPs, improving our diagnostic pathways and developing new effective screening tests. I am so grateful to everyone for helping to raise money so that we can keep more women alive for longer and reduce the affects of cancer.”
-Dr Rosalind Glasspool, BA, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCP, Consultant Medical Oncologist.
are diagnosed each year in the UK
lose their lives each year – that's 11 women every day
have to wait three months or more from first visiting their GP
Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer will be persistent and frequent (they usually happen more than 12 times a month)
Symptoms include:
Symptoms will be:
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