Dima Kourdie is a flight attendant instructor.
When you think of the most terrifying emergencies, she’s prepared: emergency evacuations, fires in flight, heart attacks, etc.“I felt pity for myself. I felt scared. I did not panic,” Kourdie said. “I said, ‘you know what cancer, you messed with the wrong girl.’”
She beat cancer at that time, salvaged some eggs before having her ovaries removed, and still was able to have triplets.“My oncologist, she came in with the file and she said, ‘I’m so sorry, you have ovarian cancer.’ I laughed. I laughed. I thought she had somebody else somebody else’s file because I said, ‘I don’t have ovaries, I haven’t had ovaries in such a long time. You have somebody else’s file.’ She said, ‘I know, I’m really sorry,’” Kourdie said.Statistically, fewer than half survive.
Nicole Andrews with the STAAR Ovarian Cancer Foundation said the only way to improve those odds is to fund research. Research is important, for example, it could potentially find a biomarker, a screening test or better treatments. “We need to raise money, at this point, so that researchers are able to do the research that we really need them to do for treatments, and then eventually we need money so we can have some sort of screening test,” Andrews explained.Women need to know the symptoms.“I’m here for awareness, but I’m also here for hope,” Kourdie said.Symptoms include:
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