Now that I have retired from the corporate business life, it is time for me to devote more effort towards the two volunteer areas I have been involved in for the past two years.My most significant effort will be to establish a Peer Support Group for Ovarian Cancer Survivors. I am a founding member of a group in Toronto, and now wish to expand that to a new group in the Guelph/Wellington area. Survivors in this silent killer of our female family members know that this illness sneaks up on its victims and is rarely caught before it is in the late stages, making survival a day to day challenge.Those with a diagnosis always express the sense of isolation with all the changes and challenges to their bodies. The Peer Support Group provides a non-medical environment for survivors to meet and find support and understanding - for some in the end stages of their life.The second and equally important group I am involved with is called STS. Acronym for Survivors teaching Students. This is a very fine group of survivors who for the past nine years have been teaching third year medical students at McMaster University about the vague symptoms that present for a woman who will eventually get a diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer. I have been involved for two years and feel this is so important, as at every presentation, it seems to be the first time awareness has been a focus for this elusive form of Cancer.This teaching tool is video conferanced in to Niagara and Waterloo universities.My plan is to have everything set up in time to begin a new group in the Guelph area for Spring 2014If any of my contacts through LinkedIn know of a woman in need, please put her in touch with me so that I can refer her to the Toronto group or find a suitable group in her area.