DR. TRIMBLE: Our next speaker is Patricia Goldman, who is the President Emeritus of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.

MS. GOLDMAN: Thank you, Ted, and thank you to all the organizers of this conference. Traditionally, aging isn't something that women are supposed to like to talk about.

I want to say that the advocates, on whose behalf I am welcoming you, how pleased we are to be here, to be anywhere, and to be aging.

We welcome the opportunity to work with all of you, so that we can continue to age. So, we think this is a very important meeting, and we are certainly on common ground with you here.

I would like the advocates that are here to please raise their hands, so that those of you who haven't met us will know who we are, and we think we are the people you are working for.

To show how change has come, at the gathering in, I believe it was 1998, Ted, with the Office of Women's Health, Ann Kolker, who is here, basically had to batter down the door to get the advocates in, and we really are appreciative of how things have evolved in those years since, where we get to participate with you. We think we bring a patient perspective, and appreciate it very much.

There have been a lot of other changes since that 1998 meeting. We are appreciative that there is acknowledgment of the symptoms of early disease, that there are some new therapies, that there are new areas of inquiry which we are here to talk about.

We are still longing for that better diagnostic tool, the screening test that will bring many more of us the opportunity to age. So, I thank you, and we look forward to working with you.

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