The Eve Appeal

Every year over 7,000 women across the UK are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. 5,000 of them will die. That’s a death rate of over 70% - similar to the survival rate for breast cancer.

With statistics like these, being diagnosed with ovarian cancer is likely to be devastating. And this news affects not only women themselves, but their family, friends and other loved ones as well.

But there is real hope for the future.

The Eve Appeal was set up to save women’s lives by funding groundbreaking research into gynaecological cancers. Their current and most urgent aim is to raise the last £5 million required to complete a world class research programme at University College London which aims to find techniques that will halve the death rates from ovarian cancer within 10 years. The programme includes the largest ovarian screening trial in the world.

It’s an ambitious target, but they are making excellent progress.

And with our help, they have a real chance of achieving it.