One person every minute of every day in the US dies from cancer. But the cure will be elusive, it is not ONE disease, it is actually hundreds of individuals disease each with their own issues. We all know that what works in one, does not work in another.

My personal belief is that we will never eradicate cancer, there are too many reasons why we get it all around us in our environment, food, air, and water supply, chemicals, lifestyle choices, that we are exposed to, and in our genes. But I believe (not in my lifetime) that we can make cancer a manageable disease, that with the proper treatments and drugs you will survive and deal with, maintaining remission through those modalities.

A recent OCF news story you would have gotten if you subscribe to the free OCF news feed http://oralcancernews.org/wp/2008/12/cancer-to-be-worlds-top-killer-by-2010-who-says/

Brian, is this OCF news feed the same as the OCF Newsletter that we sign up for on this site? XO

I do agree with you Malka about the over abundance of all the cancer products (like breast cancer) My grandmother is breast cancer survivor and if we ever bring somethng pink into her home, she will beat us!!

I was just thinking of ways to get oral cancer talked about or just noticed, maybe putting more products in the OCF store, just like the t-shirts, maybe magnets for the car. People can buy them and donate as well.

But word of mouth is the best way to promote awareness. I have been putting brochures everywhere and wearing my walk t-shirt everywhere to start conversations.

Any way we can get the conversation started on oral cancer and the OCF is a good thing.

Getting the state chapters going for OCF is the greatest way to get the word out. One of our goals is to get brochures in every dental office, cancer centers and so on.

Collen,

I do not think so (I did not sign up for the newsletter until now), but I do subscribe to the RSS feed.

see http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/news/index.asp

The news feed and the news letter (also emailed - starting in 3 weeks as we have someone new to help me write it) are two different things. You have to sign up for each one. Unlike other organizations that charge for newsletters etc., everything from OCF is free, and we would never sell or provide your information to anyone else... so no spam from us or those we associate with.

http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/newsletter.htm

I have tried to enter in OCF in the searches for goodsearch.com and goodshop.com to contribute to. But it is not listed as a participating organization. Who do we need to contact to add us?

I filled out the forms to do this. OCF should be on there in a week. This is a relatively unknown way of using Yahoo Search, which is a distant second to Google. But hey, it costs nothing to get listed but my time to fill out the forms.... so we'll see.

I think it is a great thing!