Posted on 10/25/2011 4:15:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
kickbacks and consulting fees make any salary giveback a joke.
And that would be a temptation greater than many mortals could withstand. Still, is that actually the bulk of her wealth?
Yes, and neither is skin, IIRC.
... still it is AN organ which is not completely developed at birth, and which has thus and such characteristics as described. It’s a relatively trivial fix. It ought to be made, but still it’s trivial.
As if there would be a single, “the” cure. From all that doctors know about cancer, it is a many-uglied thing representing a cornucopia of cellular dysfunction.
You can have marches for “a cure” or for “cures.”
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80% of the monies collected by Komen foundations stay local with 20% going to Komen for administrative cost. Local/state foundations determine who they give their 80% to in the form of grants. None of the 20% goes for grants.
In Mississippi not one penny goes to Planned parenthood but is used to support Operation Bloom, which provides screening and mammograms to areas w/o access or people who cannot afford it.
Not to say that there are not other or better organizations who raise funds for breast cancer but before giving to Komen, you may want to check with your local/state Komen Foundation.
I had breast cancer and spent a full year undergoing treatment at our excellent cancer center. I saw no help from Susan B Komen anywhere in the center. The American Cancer Society was everywhere.
Their volunteers were always in the waiting room waiting for people they drove back and forth to appointments. They have a store that gives away wigs. They run a group to help people connect with others who have cancer.
I will continue to donate to them.
No doubt the cancer society has their “volunteers” and their “donations” of wigs etc. to assist. Usually these are run by “volunteers” within the salon industry. The same goes for the “drivers”.
The groups one visits are generally people crying on each others shoulders...did nothing for me, I wanted answers and coping techniques to see me thru the treatments in the best way possible. That was NOT at at these meetings...after the second one I did not return...they were terribly depressing hearing people’s problems and only brought me down.
So where’s all the money going?
I can easily believe this with what I saw and experienced. The numbers are twisted of what they do for the cancer patient...they flaunt the few stories they present...but the numbers of actual patients helped by them are few.
In Mississippi not one penny goes to Planned parenthood but is used to support Operation Bloom, which provides screening and mammograms to areas w/o access or people who cannot afford it.
Not to say that there are not other or better organizations who raise funds for breast cancer but before giving to Komen, you may want to check with your local/state Komen Foundation.
That's all well and good, but the FACT still remains that the Komen organization in Mississippi is still a part of a national organization which provides financial support for Planned Parenthood.
We’re handling the Komen outrage just as we should...refusing to contribute to/buy from/support their cause...and telling people why we aren’t.
I never attended a meeting, didn’t feel I needed it or they would help me. I am sure there are plenty of people who actually need that type of support though.
I worked my regular job throughout my treatment and only a few within the company knew I was in treatment. This was critical to maintaining my “normal” life and meeting each say head on as “usual”.
Was it difficult at times..certainly..but I choose not to wrap my life in the cloak of being a cancer patient, rather getting thru what was necessary to the other side, just as one would do with any other illness.
What I saw at these meetings were woman who identified themselves by this disease....and even to day refer to themselves as “Cancer Survivors”. Which IMO is promoted by the Cancer Institutes to sustain their involvement with those fund-raising events. Would the “fund-raising” be as successful without these woman? No it likely would not be.
The way I looked at the whole ordeal was...if I wasn't going to die in the next few months or years then I had a ‘temporary’ inconvenience....and that of going thru the treatments til out on the other side. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when meeting any bump in the road of "life".
Are there any studies correlating miscarriage ( spontaneous abortion) with BC?
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