I just wanted to take a second to give everyone a quick update about my plans for next week.

On Monday I am going to be in Jackson, MS for the President’s Cancer Panel Meeting. The topic for this meeting is Tobacco and Environmental Tobacco Smoke.

On Tuesday and Wednesday I will be in NYC – meeting with Mayor Bloomberg and a few other people, and then I will be appearing on the Colbert Report (Wednesday, 11:30 ET). I’ll do my best to get some pictures and thoughts up on the blog as I go.

LIVESTRONG,

Lance

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Over the last few days I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the President’s FY08 budget proposal and the cuts to cancer funding. So, I decided to step aside today to lend another voice to the fight – one that is directly impacted. Margo Michaels is the Executive Director of ENACCT (Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials), a national partner of the LAF. Take it home Margo.

In Tuesdays Wall Street Journal, I was reminded about how President Bush’s cuts in research funding will have dire effects for people with cancer.

Any improvement in

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As most of you know I was at Discovery Team Camp over the past couple of weeks and while that led to fewer posts for the blog – it also led to more funds for cancer survivors. The Team came up with a big idea to help support me in my new job (Chairman of the LAF): The Team Discovery Channel Challenge. Now, the Team will not only be riding for spots on the podium, they will also be riding to raise money for the LAF.

This is where you come in. Visit the Team…

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Apparently President Bush has not heard us – so let me repeat. More than 500,000 Americans will die from cancer this year. More than 1.4 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Yet, in submitting his FY08 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, the President showed no signs of acknowledging these facts.

Of the 27 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NCI received the largest proposed cut of any – to the tune of $9 million. The proposed budget also calls for level funding of all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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I’ve been talking a lot recently about the fight against cancer in the US and all the work that we need to do on that front. At the same time it is important to remember that this is truly a global battle. More than 7 million people worldwide will die from cancer this year – which is equivalent to 1 in every 8 deaths. While the LAF and I continue to stoke the flames here at home we are also proud to be a part of the global community through our membership in the International Union Against Cancer (UICC).…

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