If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

Life is an incurable disease.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

NAEP is like going to the doctor for a second opinion. There's some encouraging news in this, but we recognize that we have a long way to go in the nation and in states.