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38 Detroit Jewish News

ed," she said.
Yet ovarian cancer can grow from a
single stray ovarian cell left behind
when the ovaries are removed. Often,
it grows not in the ovary itself but in
its lining or in the nearby peritoneum.
By the time Purtan's cancer was
diagnosed, following numerous tests
and two CAT scans searching out the
reason for a constant pain below her
ribs (it later proved
to be her gall blad-
der rotting from
the inside out), her
abdominal cavity
was riddled with it.
Doctors said her
cancer had been
growing for more
than four years.
Her oncology sur-
geon removed
every tumor larger
than the size of a
dime.
The chemother-
apy, which kept
her housebound
for seven months,
Gail Purtan accepts checks for the Gail Purtan Ovarian
destroyed the rest.
Cancer Research Fund from Ruthe Goldstein, president of
Now, with her
the Cong. Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood and Joyce Weingarten,
cancer
in remission
president of Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood.
for two and a half
years, Purtan
points out the similarities between her
terhoods of Adat Shalom and Shaarey
fight to have her ovaries removed and
Zedek. It was the first public-speaking
women's
fight to have ready access to
engagement ever for the wife of popu-
the
diagnostic
CA 125 blood test.
lar WOMC-FM radio personality
Initially,
her
doctor
told Purtan that
Dick Purtan, one she agreed to
one
family
instance
of
ovarian cancer
because she'd promised herself to do
did not warrant having prophylactic
something" to warn other women
surgery. When she persisted, he
when she got well. Her message was
advised her that her health insurance
one of self-advocacy and insistence on
would not cover the surgery unless
the CA 125 blood test, the simplest of
there were at least two close instances
the few diagnostic measures available
of
ovarian cancer in her family. She
to detect ovarian cancer — a disease
told
the doctor she would pay for the
for which Jewish women are at higher
surgery herself and did.
risk.
In much the same fashion, women
She was not a prime candidate for
are constantly discouraged from hav-
ovarian cancer, Purtan told the crowd
ing the CA 125 test, and it is rarely
of more than 100 women. The odds
covered by health insurance. Most
were all stacked against it. Not only
women who do convince their doctors
were her ovaries gone, she also had the
to prescribe the test must pay the $60-
protection of having had multiple
$125
charge out of their own pockets.
pregnancies. The monthly irritation to
Women
are told the anxiety caused
an ovary as it releases an egg, she
by the CA 125's 60 percent false posi-
explained, is believed to be a factor in
tive rate is the reason it is not a routine
causing ovarian cancer. "I had six term
part of their yearly gynecological
pregnancies (the Purtans have six mar-
exams. "But what about the 40 per-
ried daughters) and two miscarriages, a
cent of ovarian cancers it does detect?"
combination of more than sixty
Purtan asked. "What about those
months during which I never ovulat-
women?" She explained that instances

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Gail Purtan's Cancer Fight

hen Gail Purtan insisted
her doctor remove her
ovaries in 1993, the last
thing she thought she'd
ever battle was the same disease that
killed her aunt — ovarian cancer.
She spoke publicly about her late-
stage diagnosis and her fight against
this silent killer at the recent 11th
annual joint dinner meeting of the sis-