Today is the first day of this blog! When I was first diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in July 2015, the resident on my Oncology team at UNC Chapel Hill, NC told me that cancer spreads like seeds on a dandelion. This is a frustrating fact for many of us with this chronic disease. We receive treatment which may be surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy or some other therapy and the cancer disappears for a while…… Then it pops up somewhere else in a few months or years later. Sometimes, we may have symptoms when the cancer returns which may send us to the Emergency Room or our Primary doctor’s office. Other times it may just be an increase in our tumor marker (a blood test) or a change in our CT scan which alerts our doctor that our cancer has returned.