Walking for a cure

Around 450 people visited Docklands last month in order to join the fight against ovarian cancer.

Each month 100 Australian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The Women’s Cancer Foundation’s “100 Women Walk”, on October 12, aimed to raise funds for research into a vaccine for ovarian cancer.

Decked out in teal, walkers set off from Docklands on 10km, 20km and 50km walks and raised more than $70,000 for ovarian cancer research.

“We strongly encouraged everyone to wear teal, the international colour for ovarian cancer awareness,” event manager Patricia Dupont said.

“Breast cancer advocates have done a fantastic job with getting the ‘pink’ message out and we need to do the same for ovarian cancer as the mortality rates are the highest of all women’s cancers.”

“Two out of three women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will not survive their disease and, unless we get the message out there and find a vaccine, this will only get worse.”

According to Ms Dupont, participants spanned from children as young as eight to people in their 60s.