Deborah Cummis Sandlaufer was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer in 2012 . She has been on a chemo cocktail for the past two years and says she feels like her body is being "punished" by chemotherapy. Before diagnosis , I did not know approximately 21,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer annually in the United States , and 14,500 women die from this disease . After watching CNN 's Vital Signs , Sandlaufer enrolled in a clinical trial at Yale University .
Deborah Cummis Sandlaufer was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer in 2012 . She has been on a chemo cocktail for the past two years and says she feels like her body is being "punished" by chemotherapy. After watching CNN 's Vital Signs , Sandlaufer enrolled in a clinical trial at Yale University .