Please vote for the Oral Cancer Foundation

[boatswife]

On August 6th, 2009 I was diagnosed with Oral Cancer. What I thought was a small canker sore/ulcer on the side of my tongue, turned out to be cancer. I had surgery 4 days later to remove a small part of my tongue, a salivary gland and some lymph nodes in my neck. Right now I have a very good prognosis and I am doing fine. I'm very fortunate.

The Oral Cancer Foundation is my advocate. It's the only organization/forum that is specific to oral cancer survivors and education.

If you all would, please vote once per day. If you have to register, like I did, it's just your name, password, and date of birth.
It would be really great for them to get this grant money from Pepsi.

They also have a great educational video on the link below. Oral cancer is definitely on the rise.

Thanks for your help and please pass this on!
Patty

Dear Oral Cancer Foundation Supporters,

This month alone Pepsi is giving away 1.3 million dollars to fund good
ideas, big and small, that will make the world a better place. The Oral
Cancer Foundation is in the ranking- we submitted the idea- now its up to
YOU to see that it happens!

Everyday for the whole month of February you can vote for OCF's campaign
(once per day) here:

It's a hard disease to swallow, speak out now to prevent Oral Cancer! | Pepsi Refresh Everything

Is a killer hiding under your nose? In America, 100 people are newly
diagnosed with oral cancer everyday, making it the sixth most common cancer.
Surprisingly, this sixth most common cancer has one of the highest death
rates. Almost half of those diagnosed do not make it past five years, and
the rate of those diagnosed is on the rise. This high death rate is not
occurring because these cancers are hard to discover, it is because of a
lack of public awareness combined with a lack of a national program for
screenings. The Oral Cancer Foundation can take that rate down by promoting
oral cancer screenings through a public service announcement that will reach
every household with a TV in America. Spreading the message to ask your
dentist for an Oral Cancer screening. Oral Cancer is a hard disease to
swallow. Detection can be easy, treatment is not!

With your vote and help to spread this message, OCF could receive a grant
from Pepsi that will be large enough to make "oral cancer" a household name
in America. Please take a moment and vote today-

It's a hard disease to swallow, speak out now to prevent Oral Cancer! | Pepsi Refresh Everything

Thank you,

Megan R. Cannon
Communications Manager
The Oral Cancer Foundation
cannon@oralcancerfoundation.org
http://www.oralcancer.org
(949) 723- 4400

[Outdoor-Fishing]

Any form of cancer is serious stuff. My vote has been placed.

Passing on the "batton" to the next person...

[boatswife]

Thank you!!

[MordyT]

batton passed one...

[fattony69]

I voted. Catchy slogan.

[boatswife]

Thanks Everyone!

[boatswife]

From what I'm hearing, you need to log in and then vote. If you log in and can't find the OCF link, go to Pepsi Refresh Project and load the 250,000 current leader. At the bottom it will have the option to load more.

Thanks so much! Right now we're sitting at #20!

[boatswife]

I guess I should have asked if it was ok to post this over at vbulletin.com. I didn't figure there would be any trouble because there are links all over the place. My bad!
Well............I've been banned. Little ole frickin' me that never gives anyone trouble got banned for my oral cancer plug. I did send them a nice email.

vbulletin.org sent a nice pm and I understood why they removed it and my account is still active.

[boatswife]

Oh well............zero tolerance is not there in black and white, only "we reserve the right". The ban will not be lifted. I hate sounding like sour grapes. I'm really disappointed, but I'll just move on.

Sorry Patty, but we have a strict anti-spam, promotion, and advertisement policy:

This will be my last bother with this thread. I know it's irritating, but please vote.