my career wonder have advanced if tom brokaw had not been a champion of mine back in my nbc days. irsend him a love -- i send him a love lot of love and best wishes. i am on the honorary board of the multiple myeloma foundation. i've been a part of it since 1998. my message to tom and to anyone who has a family member or themselves suffering from this particular form of cancer is, if you have to get cancer and if you have to get multiple myeloma, god bless you for getting it today as opposed to ten years ago. when i first got involved with this particular disease, diagnosis to death was estimated at max three years. today, thanks to the research that's been done by this organization, there are now six drugs that are being used to treat myeloma as opposed to zero drugs that were in existence 15 years ago. there is so much reason to believe that tom brokaw will do exactly what he pledged in his statement today, and that is live a long and successful life