I agree with the uniqueness idea. That is exactly what you need to make an impact that spreads.

Maybe one color is not really sufficient. Consider this idea:

One of the unique things about oral cancer is that it is a single name used to describe so many more specific conditions. If you say oral cancer you encompass, tonsils, throat, larynx, jaw, tongue, gums, soft pallate, and more I am sure I don't even know.

When people ask me about Harry's cancer I tell them it is on his tongue not he has oral cancer. I guess I do that because it is more specific. But it doesn't make sense to try to take such diversity and try to confine it within the idea of a single color.

I am not advocating a rainbow either so please do not take it that way. I am just suggesting that the best solution is something that will truly express this community of people fighting to survive.

The colors for breast cancer and Lance are obvious. They have a reason for being what they are. And the cancers that they define are considered a single type.

I am just throwing this out there because I thought about what it means to have oral cancer and this is how I see it.

One need only to reed the signature lines of the posters here on the board to get a vivid picture of just how different one oral cancer is from another. So maybe whatever we choose to represent it should be a symbol of what it means.

Then it is unique, like all of you, and it stands out, it has character, and most important it gets peoples attention which is the main purpose of something like this in the first place.

AWARENESS! It is the first step toward prevention.

We had never heard of oral cancer before in our lives. I didn't know what it was or that it even existed until Harry was diagnosed.

The greatest accomplishment that a campaign such as is proposed here can achieve is that it reach people on a very large scale. To save lives and give hope!

Just my 2 cents.

Cindy