My Grandmother And Ovarian Cancer

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In Memory Of My grandmother died of caner when I was eleven. I was very close with her. Her death influenced me in many ways. My grandmother had been diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer on may twenty eighth, two thousand fifteen. My grandmother was a woman of faith and morales, and she believed that god does things for a reason. She had been given a death sentence but her faith was unfailable. She was diagnosed at the age of sixty eight and the motality rate of women with ovarian cancer older than sixty insurmountable. Ninety two percent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer after the age of sixty five die within the first year. The first month after her diagnosis she broke her hip and was put in the intensive care unit from an infection

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