Bluegrass Ovarian Cancer Support Inc. BOCS

09/01/2025

Morning friends, did you know we have an Instagram account? The content we post is a little different but we do post about monthly meetups, etc. Follow if you would please.

https://www.instagram.com/bluegrassovariancancersupport/

09/01/2025

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Help share information with your communities.

08/31/2025

You are invited! Friends of BOCS, our annual luncheon is coming up and we want to celebrate you -- please register for the luncheon today.

Registration link
https://bit.ly/BOCSREG2025

08/31/2025

Turn the Towns Teal Inc. at CHI St. Joseph Health East, Women's Hospital.

Thank you to Maureen for hanging bows and sharing awareness!

08/31/2025

Turn the Towns Teal Inc. at UK Markey Cancer Center!

Thank you to volunteers from Lambda Kappa Sigma fraternity at UK College of Pharmacy who helped hang teal bows. We appreciate our community so much.

08/31/2025

Today, about 15 volunteers -- survivors, those in treatment, family, friends -- joined us in downtown Lexington to hang teal bows for Turn the Towns Teal Inc.

September is Ovarian and Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month and the bows will hang on Main Street all month long. We have a teal bow thoroughfare on Main Street from Broadway to Rose Street.

Each bow has a URL to get more information about ovarian and gynecologic cancer.

Watch WKYT tonight at 6pm for a piece on our activity today.

If you have pictures from today, please email them to webadmin@bocsky.org and we'll get them posted. We'll share here on Facebook and also to our website www.bocsky.org

Thank you to Donut Days Bakery for supplying our treats this morning for the volunteers.

Thank you everyone for giving your time to share awareness. We appreciate everyone so much!

08/31/2025

Bluegrass Ovarian Cancer Support, Inc is seeking nominations for individuals who have impacted you on your cancer journey or you feel have made contributions to the BOCS community.

Individuals will be recognized at our annual celebration luncheon on September 28, 2025 at Origin Hotel in The Summit, Lexington. Checkin 12:30pm ET, Luncheon 1pm ET

The Community Spirit Award, Healthcare Provider Spirit Award, and Survivor Spirit Award will each be given to one recipient. The Teal Angel Award may be awarded to multiple recipients.

Nominations for each award must be a length of 50 words or less and should include a mailing address for the nominee.

We hope that you will use these awards to honor someone who has made a difference in your cancer journey or made an important contribution to our BOCS group.

Bluegrass Ovarian Cancer Support, Inc is seeking nominations for individuals who have impacted you on your cancer journey or you feel have made contributions to the BOCS community. The Community Spirit Award, Healthcare Provider Spirit Award, and Survivor Spirit Award will each be given to one recip...

08/30/2025

Friends, we need your help please! Tomorrow at 9am we are meeting in front of the Kentucky Theatre on Main Street in Lexington to hang bows for Turn the Towns Teal Inc.

We need volunteers to show up and help us cover the lamp posts from Broadway to Rose Street, all along Main Street. September is Ovarian and Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month. The teal bows have a URL for more information.

It's really easy, each group of volunteers is given a trash bag of bows and supplies. You wrap the post, tie it with zip ties and done!

Please join us as we cover Main Street in Lexington to share information. The bows will be up all of September.

08/28/2025

08/27/2025

September is Ovarian and Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month!

As we approach September, we are sharing again our presentation on "Ovarian Cancer and You" pulling together information from Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance OCRA National Ovarian Cancer Coalition and Society of Gynecologic Oncology

Since this workshop in May at the Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association Annual Meeting, the statistics have changed.

A woman’s lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer is 1 in 91.
A woman’s lifetime risk of dying from invasive ovarian cancer is 1 in 143.
Ovarian cancer survival rates are much lower than other cancers that affect women.
The relative five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer is 51.6% percent.
Mortality rates are slightly higher for African American women than for Caucasian women.

[Source: Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance https://ocrahope.org/for-patients/gynecologic-cancers/ovarian-cancer/ovarian-cancer-statistics/]

Please share this post with others -- the presentation, flyer, and active learning worksheet for you to use for notes are available on the homepage of www.BOCSky.org

There is no one test to diagnose ovarian cancer, and a pap smear will not detect it. The presentation shares symptoms and risk factors.

08/27/2025

Register today!

What: Annual Luncheon of Bluegrass Ovarian Cancer Support

Who: Ovarian and gynecologic cancer survivors, including those in treatment, friends, caregivers, healthcare providers

When: 28 September 2025

12:30pm checkin, 1pm luncheon

Where: Origin Hotel, The Summit

Each year we gather to celebrate survivors and those in treatment, and remember those we lost to ovarian and gynecologic cancers. We recognize healthcare providers and others who support patients andsurvivors.

Survivors and those in treatment will be treated to lunch. Additional attendees must pay $35 in advance.

This year we will have a professional photographer from 1 to 3pm to take photos of the luncheon and we'll have a photo of all survivors at the end.

Registration form: https://bit.ly/BOCS2025REG

Nominations for awards: https://bit.ly/BOCS2025NOM

For additional information, email webadmin@BOCSky.org