Ovarian Cancer Research Fund’s Junior Board sponsored a dinner, drinks and hot chocolate tasting event to benefit the Fund. The evening event, from 8 -11pm, at City Bakery was one of New York City’s best young professionals’ happenings this season.

The evening featured a silent auction and a host of eclectic treats, including sliders, mac & cheese, fried chicken and thick, rich, hot chocolate and assorted cookies and pastries.
This was the third annual OCRF City Bakery event which is part of the Junior Board’s annual campaign to increase public awareness for the symptoms and detection challenges of a disease that affects approximately 21,000 American women annually, of which fewer than 40 percent survive. The five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer has increased by only 8% in the last 30 years. We are at a critical crossroads for supporting research into unlocking the mysteries of ovarian cancer. Since 1998, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund has invested nearly $45 million in ovarian cancer research through grants to scientists at more than 62 leading medical centers in the US. This research has led to some of the best and most promising breakthroughs ... but more needs to be done.
The mission of OCRF is to fund research to find a method of early detection and ultimately a cure for ovarian cancer. OCRF helps patients and their loved ones understand the disease and its treatment, and also provides outreach programs to raise public awareness.

The OCRF Junior Board’s efforts are specifically focused on expanding awareness of OCRF and its mission to younger members of the community.