The Center for Women will be announcing its newest program, Lowcountry Women with Wings, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 30. The event will take place at Colonial Lake, at the intersection of Queen Street and Rutledge Avenue. September is ovarian cancer awareness month.
Representatives from a wide variety of women’s organizations from the Lowcountry as well as ovarian cancer patients and survivors have been invited to attend the press conference. Speakers will include Jennet Robinson Alterman, Executive Director of the Center for Women; Jennifer Young, MD, Gynecologic Oncologist at MUSC and Veronica Walsh, ovarian cancer survivor and entrepreneur.
The Lowcountry Women with Wings program provides online and individual, local resources for ovarian cancer patients, survivors and their families. The goal of the program is to raise awareness of ovarian cancer by teaching the symptoms, demonstrating the urgent need for ovarian cancer testing and research and offering non-medical support to the women who have been diagnosed.
“In 2008 The Center received a donation from ovarian cancer patient Terry Scharstein to develop a program that helps women battle the non-medical issues, as well as the disease,” said Jennet Robinson Alterman, executive director of the Center for Women. “We are delighted to unveil our expanded website and outreach program which includes a list of local volunteers who are offering their expertise gratis to assist with the non-medical issues such as filing for disability, understanding health insurance claims and terminology, as well as legal and financial considerations.”
Every year in the U.S more than 20,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and within 5 years 15,000 will be dead.
The outreach program will include the distribution of ovarian cancer awareness information to every OB/GYN in Charleston County. The Francis Marion Hotel is underwriting this outreach effort.
The Lowcountry Women with Wings program was developed with the generous support of Blue Cross Blue Shield of S.C., Amanda’s Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation and the many friends of Terry Scharstein.
The event will also showcase the Lowcountry Women with Wings logo, an original piece donated by local artist L. Jaye Bell. In celebration of ovarian cancer patient’s lives, this artwork will be displayed on banners at Colonial Lake. The logo is based on the program’s “rising above ovarian cancer” theme and features a winged woman with a heart resting on her pelvic area.
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