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Show by BARBARA BOUGHTON Grahams Mole Patrol When she started the Billy Foundation in 1996, mother with a mission to educate others about the dangers Karen Graham of skin cancer. Two years earlier, Graham lost her son, Billy, to melanoma at age 22 and her mission hasn't changed. "When Billy first came home from the hospital after being diagnosed, told him Were going to beat this disease, she says now. "I started the Billy Foundation because I had a promise to keep. Now Graham, who lives in Castro Valley, a quiet suburb of San Francisco, is known was a 1 worldwide for her efforts to fight skin cancer. Every year, she hits American beaches, festivals, and fairs in her white "Mole Patrol van to offer free skin cancer screenings to the public. In the Billy Foundations tents, volunteer dermatologists have screened thousands for skin cancer since 1996. 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I kept children, saying that getting calls from parents who had schools were not allowing kids to play outside with hats, even with a doctors note. Instead they kept the children inside," Graham says. That really rubbed me the wrong way. e She then put together a book of information on sun exposure and skin cancer that she distributed at state Senate hearings. She also gave an sun safety and skin cancer poll to 20 different health or campus safety officials in California schools. Only one official got all the questions right, she told state senators in the hearings. As a result of Grahams efforts, , , Tou k ? 4 ' ' f I ' " the bill passed easily and went into f It v limdnwmdtfaromt out of seven people effect January 2002. I in the UhkedSaKa 3 ralop omeform Graham also helps maintain an 1 of stdn cancer fttime. Both the educational website that cancer total amount of Ry received over the years patients can use to get information ; and oveneayosure muting in sunburn can about their disease. By pressing the CUM skin cwrnr.tlocc people receive 80 "Cancer Profiler hyperlink on the F exposure to the percent of ifitir Billy Foundation website, one is I sun fair skin and of 18. with by feeple taken to a site where a persons I northern hvfe!a appear to be diagnosis can be entered. The user most susceptwfe. for more Information automatically receives the latest about the Jpi3y fotlndation, click onto news about cutting-edg- e treatments www.bmefonemacom. ; ve 600-pag- : CmvU Kmw... . - and clinical trials. It was this website that Bill Lockridge, a firefighter in Livermore, Calif., turned to when diagnosed with melanoma stage III in 1998. From the site he found out about interferon treatments that eventually s put his cancer into remission. Graham foundation also paid for his visit to a melanoma. on world-renown- physician Karen is very passionate about defeating skin cancer and on be wouldnt melanoma, says Lockridge, a father of six. "Without her efforts I here today. Shes incredible." Grahams passion is still fueled by the memory of her sons struggle with skin cancer, she says. After his death, I felt that his life couldnt be in vain, she says. I had made well-educat- ed a promise to Billy to beat skin cancer a mothers promise." Barbara Boughton is a freelance and theres nothing more tenacious than writer from El Cerrito. Calif. |