Meghan Drottar of Braintree was diagnosed with ovarian cancer just a few weeks before her 20th birthday. ?She was away at college when she noticed a small lump that she could feel in her right abdomen.?
The school nurse sent to her to a local doctor for an ultrasound and Drottar wound up at Mass General hospital in the Gillette Center for Women?s Cancers. ?She underwent surgery to remove two tumors, one grapefruit-sized and the other cantaloupe-sized.? After four months of chemotherapy and had a few setbacks, she was on her way to recovery.
That was 10 years ago. Now cancer-free at 30, Drottar will be among 2,000 people taking part in the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition's Run/Walk to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer on Sept. 9 in South Boston.
More than 20,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year and 15,000 women die from the disease, which is not usually diagnosed until it is advanced.? If diagnosed and treated early, when the cancer is confined to the ovary, the five-year survival rate is over 90 percent.
Symptoms include bloating, pelvic and abdominal pain, trouble eating, bloating and frequent urination There is no detection test.
The walk begins and ends at Carson Beach onWilliam J. Day Boulevard. To register, go to nocc.kintera.org/massachusetts or call 781-643-9800.
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