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"I'm sitting here on a time bomb, waiting," said Janet Rigdon, executive director of the S.C. Ovarian Cancer Foundation."It's like staring down the barrel of a gun."
Rigdon was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she 45.
Whereas breast cancer groups seem to sprout up all over the place, Rigdon said her group was one of the first of its kind in South Carolina.
It's hard to build a movement when there aren't any people to fight, she said.
"We don't live.We don't have their community of purchasing power because we don't live."
Rigdon applauded the breast cancer foundations for making such huge strides in raising awareness and money to fund research.
"They do an incredible job," she said."I just wish that we had the lives."
Rigdon said she wished leaders of the breast cancer cause would embrace a wider mission for women's health, because they already have the audience.
"I really wish that they would just be an avenue, now that they have the public attention, and help advocate for all women's issues," Rigdon said.