We understand some of the things cancer patients go through and the prostheses are so expensive. That's why we carry most of the things they will need at no charge.

We hope to make a difference in setting a challenge goal for the nation of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by the year 2015. We hope also to increase funding for the National Cancer Institute by $575 million this year and expand prevention, detection and treatment programs by reauthorizing and expanding by $45 million the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.

The event is the ACS grassroots program celebrating cancer survivorship and empowering survivors and others to advocate for laws that will help fight the disease.

I think it's very, very important to have the office and offer free supplies to cancer patients. In fact, one woman didn't even realize breast prostheses were available until she discovered the loan closet.

We suggest they seek legal and financial advice first.

I have found [winners] waiting at the door for me at 8 a.m. the next day, and sometimes winners wait months to call. For a jackpot this size, they usually wait at least a few days. . . . We encourage them to consider what is happening to their lives.