Teal Ribbons Raise Ovarian Cancer Awareness in Royal Oak

Royal Oak is participating in the national Turn The Towns Teal ovarian cancer awareness campaign. Teal is the color associated with ovarian cancer.

The ribbons tied throughout the city by Jacqueline E. Bayley Foundation and Michigan Ovarian Cancer Alliance volunteers are a reminder that ovarian cancer is the deadliest of gynecologic cancers and a leading cause of cancer-related death in women.

Due to the lack of an early detection test, less than 20 percent of ovarian cancer is diagnosed early, when the cancer is the most treatable, according to Turn the Towns Teal organizers.

The Royal Oak City Commission approved the ribbon tying.

For more information contact Eleanore Schroeder, president of the Jacqueline E. Bayley Foundation at 313-303-6316.