St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness is committed to impacting ovarian cancer survivorship by promoting awareness of early warning signs and standard of care, funding ovarian cancer research, and supporting survivors.

WHO WE ARE

SLOCA is an all-volunteer 501(c)3, tax-exempt organization established in 2002.

WHAT WE DO

SLOCA works to increase awareness of ovarian cancer in five ways:

• Volunteers staff health fairs, festivals and the Working Women’s Survival Show.
• Trained speakers make presentations on ovarian cancer to small and large groups of women and men.
• Through the program Survivors Teaching Students: Saving Women’s Lives, survivors tell their stories to medical students, nurse-practitioner and physician-assistant students, and resident doctors in the St. Louis area.
• SLOCA funds a grant for research in the area of ovarian cancer each year through the Foundation for Women's Cancer (formerly called the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation). SLOCA’s annual grant has ranged from $25,000 to $50,000. FWC evaluates the applications and awards the grant. Since 2002, SLOCA has given $195,000 to research grants.
• Every few years, SLOCA in partnership with the Foundation for Women's Cancer brings in national medical experts to speak to cancer patients, survivors and caregivers for an ovarian cancer survivors’ course. The next course is tentatively scheduled for 2012.

SLOCA also provides gift bags to newly diagnosed patients, and its members participate in support groups and fund-raising walks.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

It is the policy of St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness that our organization does not discriminate in its leadership or services on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, political affiliation, or religious belief.

Nancy Larson-Vomund passes out information at SLOCA's booth at Working Women's Survival Show.