Echoing variable data

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In an email form, I have a portion of PHP script that looks like this:



$type = (!empty($_REQUEST["type"]))?$_REQUEST["type"]:"";
switch($type) {
    case "proreq": $mail_subject = "Requirement for Radioisotope"; break; $send_to = ""; break; $special = "Please provide a brief explanation regarding your radioisotope requirements, and FULL contact information. We will contact you directly. Thank you!<br>"; break;
    case "o18": $mail_subject = "Requirement for Oxygen-18"; break; $send_to = ""; break; $special = "Please provide a brief explanation regarding your O-18 requirements, and FULL contact information. We will contact you directly. Thank you!<br>"; break;
    default: $mail_subject = $type; $send_to = ""; break;
}

There’s no trouble with passing the variables $mail_subject and $send_to, but $special never gets passed to the HTML tag below:

<tr><td colspan="2"><p><font color="#626867"><?php echo $special;?></font></p></td></tr>

If I place $special outside of the function with the switch statement and hard code the data it works on its own (below). But it’s important that I be able to use the switch statement.

$special = "Please provide a brief explanation regarding your radioisotope requirements, and FULL contact information. We will contact you directly. Thank you!<br>"; break;

Any ideas what I’m missing here?