Our Story
We are a group of real people who have all been personally affected by Ovarian Cancer.
We are on a mission to make a difference in the lives of women by raising the awareness of Ovarian Cancer symptoms, urging women to be proactive with self-care and listening to their bodies, and motivating them to share with others.
Dr. Jill Alldredge
I am an oncologist caring for women with gynecologic cancers and pre-cancers, as well as complex benign processes. I perform counseling for high-risk women about risk-reduction options, complete both open and minimally invasive surgeries, as well as adminster chemotherapy for women with ovarian, uterine, cervical, and vulvovaginal malignancies.
Lindsey McClintock
In 2018 my beloved Mom, Sandy, was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. It became a passion project of mine to raise awareness and educate women in order to give us the tools to be our own advocates. Because of my family history I quickly became an advocate for myself and found out I was a candidate to have my fallopian tubes removed to decrease my cancer risk. I had the surgery in 2019, which is an outpatient procedure that does not affect menstruation, menopause or hormones. Very sadly, I lost my Mom to ovarian cancer in February of 2020 and now my mission is stronger than ever. I’d like to see as few women as possible go through what she had to go through, and the only way for this to happen is to empower women with knowledge and have Teal Talks with everyone we know. Let’s nail this disease.
Dr. Saketh Guntupalli
I am an Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine at Denver and a leading national and international expert in women’s cancer.
COCA
The Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance has been crucial in bringing this group together to raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer. Assisting and supporting ovarian cancer survivors and caregivers is at the heart of COCA's mission. They support those newly diagnosed, in treatment, after treatment, in recurrence, and long-term survivors.
Carol Goldstein
I am a Ph.D nurse who has had had ovarian cancer for eight and a half years. I receive my treatment at the University of Colorado’s department of Gynecologic Oncology where Dr. Guntupalli and his colleagues are advancing ovarian cancer research at the CU School of Medicine. I am passionate about the #NailOvarianCancer project because too many women are unaware of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer and are therefore not diagnosed or treated until the later stages of the disease.