Rehoboth Turns the Town Teal for ovarian cancer awareness

The City of Rehoboth Beach is participating for the second year in a national campaign to create awareness of ovarian cancer and its symptoms.

Volunteers supported the Turn The Towns Teal campaign by tying teal bows to light poles on Rehoboth Avenue. This ovarian cancer awareness initiative annually takes place in September, National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.

The Delaware Ovarian Cancer Foundation, an all-volunteer organization, sponsors this campaign in its efforts to help save women’s lives through its mission of increasing awareness and education, raising funds for research, and supporting women diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

The initiative gives ovarian cancer survivors a voice, and the volunteers who have lost a loved one to this disease are proud to do something proactive in memory of their loved ones. There is still no test for ovarian cancer, so knowledge of the vague symptoms is crucial. All women are at risk, and the disease affects 1 in 70 females of any age. Due to late diagnosis, less than 20 percent are diagnosed early, and a high recurrence rate, 70-90 percent, it is the deadliest of the gynecologic cancers.

For more information, go to www.deovariancancer.org.