I've beaten the odds so far. Only 10 to 20 percent of women with ovarian cancer live past five years. And I'm lucky. Even though the cancer keeps coming back, I've never felt sick or in pain.

When I first got sick, the neighbors were bringing dinner over for six months. Another woman did my laundry. Throughout the years, I have had a group of people here who have done whatever I needed.

My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to Germany. People are flying over there from all over the world.

When my stomach blew up, I immediately went to my gynecologist. I thought maybe it was because of the walk, and maybe also because I'd just had a baby. James was only 3 months old. But when my gynecologist, after seeing me on Friday, wanted to have me tested immediately the next morning, I knew it was bad.

Once you've had cancer, you're more likely to get secondary cancers because of the treatments, and I want to look out for that,

Breast cancer is never diagnosed until you're an adult, so something is happening over the course of women's lives. I don't want to wait until my 7-year-old daughter has grown up before we have definitive proof that all these chemicals are causing breast cancer or other illnesses.