Dear friends,
I just got off the phone with state senator Mike Rodrigues office. The governor has signed a proclamation making November NET Cancer Awareness Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mike will present the proclamation at the Chowder and Clam Cakes fundraiser Walking with Jane is doing tomorrow night in Westport. Mike’s office has done the legwork on this the last two years.
We tried to get a formal presentation from the governor in Boston but were told they don’t do that kind of thing. We will try to find an appropriate venue to display and present the proclamation in Boston sometime in November with NET cancer patients, caregivers and researchers, as well as members of the legislative cancer caucus and other interested parties. If those of you in Boston have thoughts, let me know.
Since the founding of NET Cancer Awareness Day, Massachusetts has always made November NET Cancer Awareness Month, initially through the actions of Pamela ter Gast, who is a NET cancer patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
This post has to be brief as I’m off to try to arrange press coverage for tomorrow night.
Pax et lux,
Harry
Hi,
That is great news. Don’t forget to reach out to both the Dana Faber NET support group as well as the one I’m on the board of…the New England Carcinoid Connection which meets in Needham.
Thanks!
Jen O’Rourke
I sent a separate note to DFCI. I don’t have an address for NECC. If you can get me one, I’ll send them a note, too. Do you have thoughts on some kind of something for everyone event we can do in November?