When I get back from speaking at the Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics meeting over the weekend I will add a sentence or two to the intro, and I think that I will use Gary's point emphasize the value that is there. After all, many who have fought very tough battles have given much of their time and shared experiences to help others and create those threads, and that is definitely the spirit of the boards.

None of this should be misconstrued to mean that people shouldn't ask all the questions that they have. More than that there have been some drug changes and product changes since the earlier posts. The HPV issue has been elucidated greatly in the last two years. And we have a generous poster here who is very well informed about the virus and the clinical trials that are now going on. That information is changing daily. The main site has been updated with lots of HPV information, but Gail's knowledge about the clinical trials that are ongoing is direct and intimate, and until the results of those trials are published in a year or two we can't put anything up in the main body of the site. There is also the human element. Sometimes it is the compassion with which the message and information is delivered as much as the content that is important. So for as much as Amy feels I don't get it, once again she is taking me to task for something unnecessarily. I do get it. I started this forum.


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.