Ovarian and Uterine Clinical Resource Area - Additional Resources

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is the nation's leading group of professionals providing health care for women. It is a private, voluntary, nonprofit membership organization. The web site provides links that include advocacy, information, education, and women's issues.

FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
FORCE is a nonprofit organization for women with increased risk of cancer due to family history and genetic status, and for members of families in which a BRCA mutation may be present. Through education and support, their mission is to join FORCEs against hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.

Gynecologic Cancer Foundation
The Gynecologic Cancer Foundation (GCF) was established by the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) in 1991 as a not-for profit charitable organization to raise funds to support philanthropic programs to benefit women who have, or who are at risk for, developing a gynecologic cancer.

The mission of GCF is to ensure public awareness of gynecologic cancer prevention, early diagnosis and proper treatment as well as supports research and training related to gynecologic cancers. GCF advances this mission by increasing public and private funds that aid in the development and implementation of programs to meet these goals.

National Ovarian Cancer Alliance
The NOCC's goal is to raise awareness and to promote education about ovarian cancer while improving survival and quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.

Ovarian Cancer Home Page
The National Cancer Institute's cancer topics page features an overview of ovarian cancer, including treatment, prevention, causes, screening and testing, clinical trials, and statistics.

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
A comprehensive web site whose mission is to conquer ovarian cancer by uniting individuals and organizations in a national movement. This site provides links for disease overview, treatment including clinical trails, education, and advocacy.

The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
The Society of Gynecologists (SGO) is the leading organization of gynecologic oncologists in the United States. Their purpose is to improve the care of women with gynecologic cancers by encouraging research, disseminating knowledge which will raise the standards of practice in the prevention and treatment of gynecologic malignancies and cooperating with other organizations interested in women's health care, oncology and related fields. Their web site includes information on membership, meetings, physician education, advocacy, and resources.

Uterine Cancer Home Page
The National Cancer Institute's cancer topics page features an overview of endometrial cancer, including treatment, prevention, causes, screening and testing, genetics, clinical trials, and statistics.

American Cancer Society
This American Cancer Society web site provides information on causes, risk factors, prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, treatment and statistics regarding uterine cancer.

Tools and Handouts
As ovarian cancer and endometrial may be of familial or genetic origin, it is important for patients to discuss their personal and family history of disease with their physicians. The U.S. Surgeon general has launched the Family History Initiative, a national public health campaign to focus attention on the importance of family health history. Patients should be encouraged to access this web site where they may enter their family’s medical history and bring this pedigree with them to their appointments with their healthcare providers. This Family History Initiative may be found on this link, http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory.