Editing Gilda Radner (section)

=== Legacy in cancer awareness and treatment ===
Radner's death helped raise awareness of the early detection of ovarian cancer and the connection to familial epidemiology.<ref>Squires, Sally. "Fighting Ovarian Cancer: Doctors Don't Know Who Is At Risk and Why", ''The Washington Post'', May 30, 1989.</ref> The media attention in the two years after Radner's death led to registry of 450 families with familial ovarian cancer at the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry, a research database registry at [[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]] in [[Buffalo, New York]]. The registry was renamed the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry (GRFOCR) in 1990 and renamed the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About The Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry|url=https://www.roswellpark.org/ovarian-cancer-registry/about-registry<!--&#124;url-status=live-->|access-date=May 17, 2021 |publisher=[[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]]}}</ref> In 1996, Wilder and Registry founder Steven Piver, one of Radner's medical consultants, published ''Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Piver |first1=M. Steven |last2=Wilder |first2=Gene |date=1996 |title=Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer |location=Amherst, NY |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781573920896 |oclc=34753362}}</ref>

Wilder established the Gilda Radner Hereditary Cancer Program at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|Cedars-Sinai]] to screen high-risk candidates (such as women of [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish descent]]) and to run basic diagnostic tests. He testified before a Congressional committee that Radner's condition had been misdiagnosed and that if doctors had inquired more deeply into her family background they would have learned that her grandmother, aunt, and a cousin had all died of ovarian cancer, and therefore they might have attacked the disease earlier.<ref>Wilder, Gene. "Why Did Gilda Die?" ''People'' magazine, June 3, 1991.</ref>
[[File:Gilda's Club New York City.jpg|alt=Picture of Gilda's Club location in New York City|thumb|Gilda's Club location in New York City]]
In 1991, [[Gilda's Club]], a network of affiliated clubhouses where people living with cancer, their friends, and families, can meet to learn how to live with cancer, was founded by Joanna Bull, Radner's cancer [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapist]], along with Radner's widower, [[Gene Wilder]] (also a cancer survivor) and broadcaster [[Joel Siegel]] (who would die in 2007 following a long battle with colon cancer). The first club opened in New York City in 1995. The organization took its name from Radner's comment that cancer gave her "membership to an elite club I'd rather not belong to".<ref>{{cite web|title=Gilda's Club Twin Cities: Who We Are |publisher=Gilda's Club Twin Cities |url=http://www.gildasclubtwincities.org/whoweare/faqs|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150320050552/http://www.gildasclubtwincities.org/whoweare/faqs|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 20, 2015|access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref>

Many Gilda's Clubs have opened across the United States and in Canada. In July 2009, Gilda's Club Worldwide merged with [[The Wellness Community]], another established cancer support organization, to become the Cancer Support Community (CSC).<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2009/04100/Wellness_Community___Gilda_s_Club_May_Merge.5.aspx|title=Wellness Community & Gilda's Club May Merge |journal=Oncology Times |date=2009 |volume=31 |issue=7 |pages=8–10|doi=10.1097/01.COT.0000350347.90229.05 |access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/susanmcclure/2009/12/14/Gildas-Club-and-The-Wellness-Community-Join-Forces|title=Gilda's Club and The Wellness Community Join Forces|first=Susan|last=McClure|date=December 14, 2009|access-date=November 28, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207185410/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966|archive-date=December 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966 |title=Merging to Increase Mission Impact |work=The NonProfit Times |access-date=November 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207185410/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/article/detail/merging-to-increase-mission-impact-3966 |archive-date=December 7, 2012}}</ref> As of 2012, more than 20 local affiliates of Gilda's Club were active. Although some local affiliates of Gilda's Club and The Wellness Community have retained their names, many affiliates have adopted the name Cancer Support Community following the merger.<ref name=":0" />