This wasn't supposed to hit the news until after TV Guide published the interview on the 17th. Then OCF was going to do a PR story in the media about art imitating life and how many days the oral cancer story will get aired on national TV (millions of viewers per day) over several months, with yours truly as the the technical advisor to the show. It's a great story about how a producer, an actor, and a non-profit come together with an idea to inform the public about a disease, little heard of, through a story line in a daily drama that will last for more than a month and put lots of good information out there (unlike Grey's Anatomy, that got most of the disease issues wrong, had doctors who had never done a glossectomy doing her surgery, and treated the entire subject only as comic relief in the story line, as opposed to treating this killer with the seriousness they show other cancers). The person that put this out in their blog, spilled the beans too early and screwed up the timing of everything. But in this case art will imitate life with Colleen's character getting the disease she personally had herself. There is more than one way to spread the word....especially when you have no money.

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.