WAYS TO GIVE

 Linda and Viv Hailwood on a long hike in the Yorkshire Dales.

It seems to be a very slack season for significant news about ovarian cancer research; all the articles I find that seem appropriate for this blog already been explored, glowing tumors, for instance https://ljb-quiltcutie.blogspot.com/2021/11/tumors-that-glow-in-dark.html 

So I find I must resort to reminding you of worthy places to support.  You can go to the American Cancer Society, of course, but it funds work concerning all kinds of cancer and, moreover, as a vast enterprise must have considerable operating expenses.  The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA; https://ocrahope.org/) also must be expensive to operate, but has the virtue of being focused on ovarian cancer.  Perhaps a better choice would be the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research (https://www.google.com/search?q=rivkin+center&oq=&aqs=chrome.0.69i59i450l8.425541680j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) , a smaller, even more tightly focused organization founded in honor of his wife by my number-one hero, retired Swedish oncologist Dr. Saul Rivkin.

But, as you knew I would, I most strongly recommend going straight to the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and give directly to the ovarian research programs at Fred Hutch, using the web page honoring my wife, Linda Joyce Beck: (https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/TR/PersonalFundraisingPages/General?px=1148821&pg=personal&fr_id=1573).   

We have raised nearly $30,000 through this source, which is not much as these things go – but way better than nothing.  I like to think that, for every dollar I donate a woman in, say 2040, will be spared a battle with OVCA.  Stupid, I know, but it makes me feel better!