OC Event Educates Patients & Raises Research Dollars

Educational Symposium screenshot Melanie Bacheler
Screenshot Dr. Secord and Dr. Berchuck
Andrew Berchuck, MD, Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc, and ovarian cancer survivor Lisa Williams.
2020 Gail Parkins Walk check presentation
Melanie Bacheler (center) and her family present a check for $170,356.20 raised during the 2020 Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Walk & 5K Run to support ovarian cancer research at DCI.

The 18th Annual Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Walk & 5K Run, virtual for 2020, raised more than $170,000 to support ovarian cancer research at Duke. Organizer Melanie Bacheler, who founded the event in memory of her mother, gathered her family and presented a symbolic check via Zoom.

Close to 600 people on 64 teams — from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and even North Dakota — participated.

On September 26, the final day of the virtual event, DCI GynOnc program director Andrew Berchuck, MD, and assoc. director of clinical research, Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc, led an educational symposium via Zoom for patients. They covered ovarian cancer screening, prevention and genetic testing, as well as PARP inhibitor therapies.

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Selected Slides from the Symposium

from the presentation by Andrew Berchuck, MD

Ovarian Cancer Rates & Ethnicity


                   from the presentation by Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc
 

PARP Inhibitors

 

Topics
Andrew Berchuck, Angeles Secord, Gail Parkins, Ovarian Cancer, Ovarian Cancer Walk

Kathy JenningsStage 4 ovarian cancer survivor Kathy Jennings tuned in with her husband to watch the Ovarian Cancer Educational Symposium. READ KATHY'S CANCER STORY