Hello from Austin! Despite my friends’ disbelief I have managed to remain on the homefront since a lot of travel in the month of December. But that in no way means either I or our staff here at the LAF have been taking it easy. I told you in my last update that we’d be heading to New Orleans for my last President’s Cancer Panel meeting and then we’ll be pitching in for two days with Habitat for Humanity. But today we had yet another major chance to make real change in the world of cancer, and it happened literally…

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I have been thinking a lot lately about how to crank up the heat a little bit and let our elected officials, and those who want to be elected, that there are millions of people who are watching and waiting to see what each candidate will do to combat cancer. Lance and I spoke about some ideas and we decided to launch a new advertisement in Nevada and South Carolina… check it out. I think this may get some attention. It is a shame we have to “hope” our leaders will pay attention to a war that we can surely…

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