Joan Oswald is one of many women living longer-and better-with OVARIAN CANCER Discover how this is possible BY HOLLY FORD Sixty-year-old Joan Oswald works part time as a nurse. She goes to the gym regularly, loves to travel and is active in the lives of her six grandchildren. Although her days are busy and her weeks full, there's now something new at the top of her to-do list: managing cancer. Oswald was initially diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in 2014. "I had just had a physical two months prior and got a clean bill of health, so this diagnosis was a complete shock," she says. Her mother died from the disease at age 67, so Oswald had always been proactive when it came to her health, receiving regular gynecologic screenings and annual checkups. WINTE R 2016 49