Be The Difference Foundation Information

The foundation was formed by four ovarian cancer survivors in different phases of survivorship who all share the passion to Be the Difference and end the fight against ovarian cancer. The mission of Be The Difference Foundation is to help women increase their chance of survival of ovarian cancer. Be The Difference Foundation achieves this goal by focusing on raising awareness and money to fund programs for women fighting ovarian cancer today and to provide research dollars for a cure. With over $2.0M raised to date BTDF has funded research programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, UT Southwestern and University of Pennsylvania; supported The Clearity Foundation in helping women improve treatment decisions in recurrent and progressive ovarian cancer patients through molecular profiling and provided funds for the Lazarex Cancer Foundation to provide women battling ovarian cancer with assistance toward costs for clinical trial participation. Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological cancer, affecting 1 in 70 women. Today, more than 70% of ovarian cancer patients will die of their disease. When ovarian cancer is detected and treated early, the five year survival rate is greater than 92%. Sadly, symptoms are vague and subtle, so most patients are diagnosed at later stages, and less than 50% will survive more than 5 years after their diagnosis. There is no reliable, routine early detection tool to test for ovarian cancer in all women. A Pap test does not detect ovarian cancer. It is time to change these statistics for our mothers, daughters, sisters and girlfriends and be the difference in the fight against ovarian cancer today! Be The Difference Foundation’s signature fundraising event, Wheel to Survive, are now held in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver and San Francisco. Join us at one of these events to Be The Difference in the fight against ovarian cancer!