Cancer survivor turns to research to help other patients

REXFORD, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A local woman, who beat ovarian cancer twice, is focusing her efforts on research and improving the lives of patients. Meg Wilkinson, of Rexford, started her own advocacy group called The Omentum Project and enlisted a team of volunteer researchers to look at an organ that is rarely studied.

In 2014, a routine checkup for Wilkinson turned into a life changing diagnosis. Doctors told her she had ovarian cancer, and she underwent surgery. "It was a full hysterectomy...