I came across this brilliant video spot created for Ovarian Cancer Action in the United Kingdom.
Vicky Jacobs, one of the creative powers behind this Public Service Announcement lost her six-year battle with ovarian cancer on the same day the campaign launched. She was 48 at the time of death.
Ovarian cancer is voracious. As a result, look at these tragic statistics, one woman in the U.K. dies every two hours.
Kate Winslet provided the voiceover for the video. Winslet lost her mother to ovarian cancer in 2017. Ovarian cancer touches us all directly or indirectly. You, or someone you know, lost someone they loved to this relentless disease.
In an article about Vicky Jacobs, the launch of the campaign, and the grim facts about ovarian cancer, you can see she is a true wellness warrior. Her mission to change the outcome for future generations imbued her life with a bigger purpose. Jacob’s talent will live on. Despite her diagnosis, she committed to creating this compelling campaign. She worked with doctors searching for an immunotherapy solution for ovarian cancer.
I will survive
Gloria Gaynor wrote the words. Her disco song of heart-break, spoken by these sweet-faced girls hit me like a freight train to the gut.
Go on now, go, walk out the door, just turn around now
Gloria Gaynor
‘Cause you’re not welcome anymore
Weren’t you the one, who tried to break me with goodbye
Did you think I’d crumble? Did you think I’d lay down and die?”
Go, walk out that door, you’re not welcome anymore.
I told cancer it was not welcome in my life.
Will you survive?
What we must do to eradicate this insidious disease, is to raise awareness. It is incumbent on us to pay attention, push for research, and funding. How many more deaths must take away people we love. How many times do we need to be mourners? What will it take to stop ovarian cancer before we lose more incredible people like Vicky Jacobs, these little girls, or their mothers, aunts, and friends?
