2nd Annual Adrenal Cancer Symposium

The second annual gathering of ACC patients and physicians will be held at the University of Michigan March 14-15, 2008. Register online if you plan to attend. It's free for patients.

Pilgrimage to Cambodia

Happy holidays! I recently returned from traveling to Cambodia and the Philippines earlier this month. It has always been a dream of mine to pay my respects to the largest temple in the world located in the holy city of Angkor, Cambodia. Since I was in the neighborhood, I thought I would also visit the motherland...the Philippines where I visited my family who I had not seen since 1981.

I kept a journal while in Southeast Asia and am currently working on transferring my hand-written notes online on tumblr.

Sending you wishes of good health, much love, and peace in the new year!

P.S. I am still day-dreaming of Cambodia!

Ryan's Legacy

From a December 8, 2007, article in the Lincolnshire News, UK.

LITTLE RYAN'S LEGACY LIVES ON

Date : 08.12.07

The family of a little boy who lost his fight against a rare cancer have set up a foundation in his memory. Ryan Brown, from Skellingthorpe, died on December 13, 2006 - exactly a month before his fifth birthday. He lost his brave battle against adrenal cancer, which affects less than 30 Britons a year. But despite his suffering, family and friends say they will always remember Ryan as a happy little boy. Ryan's grandfather Alec Brown (51), from South Hykeham, said: "He had been so brave and we will always remember the smile on his face." Now his family have set up the Ryan Brown Foundation to ensure Ryan's memory will live on. The foundation aims to raise awareness of adrenal cancer, send terminally ill children and their families on holidays to Tenerife, and boost funds to buy chemotherapy pumps for Great Ormond Street Hospital and the children's ward at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.