I thank all of you for your comments, I am pleased that people find value in it all. I am greatly indebted to Christine for agreeing to be the face of OCF, and our representative here and away at trades shows and walks, as she took a huge load off my plate. So did all the other regulars who I won't mention by name, but who dedicate part of their week to helping someone behind them on the path. While I live immersed in the research world most of my days, so I by osmosis, organically learn a great deal about our disease, I am always impressed at the quality of information that long-term posters have absorbed through many years of discussions, and how true to the science they generally are. All of you that come back to help others are heroes in my book, and those of you that have become, even if by proxy, students of the scientific parts of it all so that you can speak with accuracy, are the backbone of what I always hoped the support group would be. When combined with those whose strengths are the emotional support aspect of it all, you guys are the best of OCF.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.