Bobby Hamilton Sr. served as the ambassador of the State of Tennessee this past week for the American Cancer Society’s Celebration on the Hill 2006. The event was an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network event celebrating cancer survivorship and empowering survivors and others to advocate for laws that will help fight the disease. Hamilton Sr. served as the guest speaker during Tuesday night’s “CANpaign for Change,” which also included former NFL star Thurman Thomas and Maryland men’s basketball coach Gary Williams.

Hamilton Sr. served as a speaker at a breakfast with the MIDSOUTH Chapter of the ACS. He also attended the Relay Celebration at the mall to walk the "survivor lap". Hamilton Sr also spoke at the Relay Event that afternoon.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is the non-profit, non-partisan sister advocacy organization of the American Cancer Society, dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major public health problem through voter education and issue campaigns aimed at influencing candidates and lawmakers to support laws and policies that will help people fight cancer. 
 
It’s amazing how much one word can change you life," Hamilton Sr. says  "When you hear it, feel it, bear it, and breathe it that one word changes your entire view on the way you see every single aspect of your life.  I will never be the same person I was before I found out I had cancer.  I am now a better person for what I have endured just as all the millions of people in our country who feel the same way after beating cancer."