Dear Family and Friends:

This will be the Fourth Annual Tee Off for Cancer Research for Fox Chase Cancer Center. Last year’s event raised $25,000 for cancer research and had proven, even with the challenge of a struggling economy and fewer companies providing sponsorship, the event was well attended and had raised an unexpected substantial amount of money.

The Devlin Fund for Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center is over three years old and to date has raised over $75,000 for cancer research. We hope to continue this success for many years to come with our Golf and many other sponsored events and hope to see many of you there.

After Bob’s diagnosis of Head and Neck cancer in 2004, and prostate cancer in 2005, we felt a need to be involved in doing something to help find a cure for this disease. As many of you know, Linda has lost her parents and extended family to cancer. Bob’s father lost his battle with leukemia when he was just 28 years old. There is great probability that had his father contracted leukemia today he could very well be cured if not have a chronic disease rather than a terminal one. This progress is made possible by research and the funding that is raised to provide it.

Fox Chase Cancer Center has a new President and CEO and the Center is growing rapidly. Unfortunately there are still a large number of people being diagnosed every day. The good news is that many of them are living longer or even being cured, thanks to research being done at Fox Chase Cancer Center and other NCI research centers across the nation.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is on the cutting edge of many new research projects and has over two hundred clinical trials going on at any one time. We thank all of the Researchers, Scientists, Nurses, Doctors and staff personnel at Fox Chase Cancer Center for all of the work they do.

The future of cancer patients’ longevity and quality of life will require substantial amounts of money to fund the necessary research. As many of you are aware, government funding for cancer research has been cut tremendously in recent years. It is up to people like us to help raise money to fight this disease and eventually conquer it.

Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy lives to help us in reaching our goal of raising money for cancer research.

Bob & Linda Devlin