Speaking Research: Gayla Little and Project LEAD

Thank you, Phyllis, for sharing my story in your column.  All of us, who have been through that awful breast cancer diagnosis, know how much we need hope when we are in treatment.  People need to know that it is possible to survive this awful disease.  God bless the researchers who spend their lives searching for the cause and the cure.  God bless the Avon Foundation for funding training programs like Project Lead, so that lay people like you and me can talk to researchers about the importance of their research.  God bless the caring oncologists who are willing to fight for our lives, even when the outlook is grim.  Fifty years ago, my Aunt Louise died of a "female cancer."  How lonely those women must have been to live in a society that wouldn't even let them talk about the disease that was killing them.  Today, our dialogue brings us together and gives us hope.  Thank you, Phyllis, for all you do to contribute to that dialogue which strengthens us all.