'Pass it on' campaign

We need your help to give 150 free booklet packs to healthcare professionals by the end of December 2025.

This includes your CNSs, GPs, Medical Oncologists, and anyone else who may be involved in treating people diagnosed with ovarian cancer. 

The booklets cover issues around treatment side effects and wider issues that can be managed at home. If you have a planned appointment with your team or GP coming up, please get in touch. We will send you a pack to pass on to the healthcare professional.

Ovacome is a small charity, we have a big job to do. Too often, we hear from individuals who tell us they wish they’d known about us sooner. Community is at the heart of all our campaigns, and we need your help to make sure that people receive valuable information and support as early as possible. 

The autumn 2025 booklet pack

We’ll be including booklets on coping with anxiety and fatigue, surgical menopause, and the effects of an ovarian cancer diagnosis on people’s sex lives. These are issues that are sometimes ignored during diagnosis and treatment – but can have major effects on patients, their lives and relationships. The booklets give practical advice and include tips from our members.

Examples of booklet content included in this pack:

• A booklet on surgical menopause, which offers information on dealing with symptoms, how you can help yourself and the role of HRT. It also encourages younger people who are newly diagnosed to discuss early menopause and fertility saving surgery with their team. 
• The booklet on ovarian cancer and your sex life talks frankly about how you can learn to accept your body and enjoy sexual relationships again. It gives practical advice on products that can help you. 
• Our booklet on chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy describes how numbness and pain, often experienced in the hands and feet, can be nerve damage caused by chemotherapy – usually Taxol – used by gynaecological cancer patients. The booklet discusses treatments 
  and strategies to reduce its effects on your life.

We need your help - please get in touch

To request a pack to share with healthcare professionals at your next appointment call 0207 299 6654 or email us at ovacome@ovacome.org.uk