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Building a Community - your help needed [TEST]
I am learning more about ways to connect with people interested in The Omentum .... ... learning about SEO, and ... learning about social...
Jun 26, 2024
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Lunch and Learn: The Omentum and its Impact on Cancer Survivors (May 9th)
Are you a cancer survivor, thriver or advocate? Or a student or a medical professional looking to support this community? Join us to hear...
Apr 8, 2024
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Recurrence
- Meg at chemo in 2023 “Recurrence.” Not the word I was expecting. Made sense, though; it gave me answers. I was sitting in “the little...
Sep 14, 2023
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“Eat Popcorn for Science”!
Women Needed for Research Study on the Processing of Salty Foods Step 1: Are you eligible? Take the Part 1 Eligibility Survey: Processing...
Jul 2, 2022
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Free Webinar on Thursday May 26th, 2022: "Together We Can Learn About the Omentum"
The Omentum Project needs your help! We need 400 women to Eat Popcorn for Science... learn more on the webinar this Thursday, at 7 pm...
May 23, 2022
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Answers Needed Regarding the Biology of the Omentum
Dear Omentum Project Community: Please help us inspire a researcher. Please share this post with contacts in your network who might be...
Mar 12, 2021
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Learn About the Omentum
The Omentum? Several medical professionals I have met over the years are not familiar with this organ. Dr. Anita Burock Stotts was no...
Nov 10, 2020
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The Omentum Project is pleased to announce our online video series, “Learn. Try. Share.”
If you had an omentectomy, are curious to learn about the function of the omentum, and perhaps most importantly, want to learn about ...
Sep 19, 2020
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A custom illustration of the Omentum
Thank you to Heidi Schuman, a junior at Springfield College majoring in studio art. Heidi created a gorgeous graphite, pen, and ink...
May 19, 2020
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Digestive Issues: Not “Polite” Conversation …. Important to Quality of Life
Digestion: so important, but not considered a “polite” topic of conversation. A 2016 survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of...
Apr 6, 2020
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Free Webinar: Together We Can Learn About Living Without an Omentum (May 30th)
The Omentum Project Advisory Team is hosting a free, educational workshop for cancer survivors living without an omentum, "Together We...
Mar 4, 2020
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Travel: The Final Exam
Traveling is like a final exam for me: I have to apply all the things I have learned about managing Post-Omentectomy Fluid Retention...
Feb 1, 2020
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What’s In a Name? Post-Omentectomy Fluid Congestion Syndrome (“POFCS”).
After a great deal of reflection, I have decided that it is important to have a name that adequately reflects the complexity of the...
Jan 7, 2019
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Bloated and Scared
Bloating? Again. Oh, God….. Please, please don’t let it be Cancer. Again. Fifteen months after my ovarian cancer surgery, which included...
Nov 7, 2018
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What is an omentectomy??
“What is an omentectomy?” I asked as I read the surgical report. A few days before, I had learned that I had ovarian cancer, and my...
Sep 3, 2018
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Why the omentum?
Welcome! Wow. My first ever blog post... Why the omentum? Because my omentum was removed as part of cancer staging surgery in 2014. The...
Aug 24, 2018
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