About The Eve Appeal

The Eve Appeal was set up to save women's lives by funding groundbreaking research into gynaecological cancers.

Nearly 18,000 women are diagnosed annually in the UK with a gynaecological cancer and some 7,500 die.

In the UK, ovarian cancer is the most fatal of all the gynaecological cancers and has a death rate similar to the survival rate for breast cancer. Each year in the UK 6,600 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and 4,400 women die from the disease. When ovarian cancer is diagnosed at an advanced stage, the mortality rates are even more devastating.

Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in women in the UK and the most common cause of gynaecological cancer death.  

Despite these grim statistics ovarian cancer is neither a well-profiled nor a well-funded cause. The Eve Appeal is determined to change this.

Our current focus is to raise vital funds for research into prevention, detection, treatment and care of ovarian cancer. This world-leading research is complicated and challenging but the ambition is simple: to identify techniques that could halve death rates from ovarian cancer.