very cool, shorty! i wonder why i've never heard of this before . 3 out of 4 of my grandparents had cancer, and my only aunt, who had breast cancer, just told us that her doc found a new lump in her breast this month. no word yet on its status, but supposedly it's just calcification. the ovarian cyst i had removed the summer before this past turned out to be borderline cancerous, as well; that means that it had high cancerous potential, and left behind cells that do, too. i have to get sonograms twice a year for the rest of my life. it's amazing how little we know about cancer and amazing how devastating it is --- in that it affects all kinds of people, in all parts of the body. one would think we'd know more than we do by now . and i'm sorry to hear about your friends, shorty . if you don't mind my asking, what kind of cancers did they have?