Keeping children ignorant doesn’t keep them safe and healthy

• May 30, 2024
• The Eve Appeal

New draft Relationship, Health and Sex Education (RHSE) Guidance – what does it mean for gynaecological and reproductive health?

‘Finding out you carry these alterations comes with its own grief and big decisions that need to be made’

• May 16, 2024
• Carly

In this blog, Carly shares her story of having a BRCA gene alteration, and both her and her sister’s cancer journeys.

Less than half of women would act on ‘red-flag’ symptoms

• May 1, 2024
• The Eve Appeal

Our Get Lippy 2024 YouGov survey found that too few women would act on abnormal bleeding symptoms.

Rachel’s poem: ‘A woman’s journey’

• April 19, 2024
• Rachel

In this blog, Rachel shares a reflective poem she wrote about her experiences as a woman, her gynae health and her recent diagnosis of a rare gynae cancer, vaginal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

‘It’s tough, it’s fun, and you’re doing it for the best cause ever’

• April 3, 2024
• Carol

In this blog, Carol writes about her experiences of doing our ‘Trek To Remember’ over the years.

New NICE guidelines around genetic testing and ovarian cancer

• March 28, 2024
• The Eve Appeal

Our Comms Manager, Lydia, blogs about the news and how Eve funded research has helped get us here. 

Research news: Vaping shown to cause similar changes to DNA as smoking

• March 20, 2024
• The Eve Appeal

Today new research was published which points towards vapes causing similar changes to cheek cells as smoking.

‘Grieving the loss of an ovary’

• March 18, 2024
• Izy

Izy shares her story of her diagnosis and journey with a borderline ovarian tumour.

‘Waiting two years for surgery for a pre-cancerous condition is not a wait any woman should endure.’

• February 29, 2024
• Sharon

Sharon writes about her journey with endometrial hyperplasia, a pre-cancerous condition in the womb, in North Ireland.

Chair of our Board, Melanie Richards CBE hands the baton over to Tamara Box

• February 7, 2024
• The Eve Appeal

After an amazing 13 years on the board & four years as Chair, we are saying a goodbye and thank you to Melanie Richards.

The life-giving, life-saving procedure

• January 30, 2024
• Claire

Claire tells her story of finding out she had a BRCA alteration and having her ovaries removed whilst having a caesarean.

‘If I had known the dangers of bloating and not dismissed it as ‘normal’ I might not have needed such major surgery’

• January 4, 2024
• Pip

Pip shares her experience of bloating, having an ovarian cyst, and advocates for the importance of knowing your normal and spotting when something isn’t right.