What next?

Every day, it seems, we read about breakthrough treatments, but there's still so much more to be done. Although I contribute to cancer research charities, I haven't done any fund-raising for a while. 

I've spent the last couple of weeks or so reflecting on the life and death of my friend. Thinking about it, cancer has claimed a lot of my friends in the last few years, and quite a few of us have been touched personally by diagnoses that have led to treatment and (so far) survival.  Coupled with my realisation that I could do more, I'm now thinking about how best to raise funds - an event of some sort, I think, but it all takes planning. I have some ideas, but they need to be refined and discussed. Whatever it takes though, I need to do something now both in recognition of my own good fortune in surviving my cancer and in remembrance of all those people in my life who have succumbed.