October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Money Raised for Breast Cancer Research: $0
Estimated new cases and deaths from breast cancer in the United States in 2010:
| New cases: 207,090 (female); 1,970 (male) | |
| Deaths: 39,840 (female); 390 (male) | |
Breast cancer is highly treatable if detected early. You can make a difference in someone's life by raising awareness, emphasizing self-exams, and donating to breast cancer research.
Download Breast Self-Awareness Cards
You can make a difference. Pray. Hope. Fight. Win. Fight like a girl!
Crafts for Cancer and Blog for Breasts are two groups of women (and some men) who want to raise awareness and raise money in the battle against breast cancer. Crafts for Cancer is a group of especially talented people who are donating a portion of the proceeds from purchases of their crafts to breast cancer research. Blog for Breasts is another group of amazing people who are working to raise awareness about breast cancer. Make sure to visit their shops and blogs below. Together, we can make a difference!
There are three ways you can help.
1. Purchase a Think Pink friendship bracelet.
*Made by SewCrossed. Proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Click the word donate above to donate directly to the Susan G. Koman foundation. You can also visit the blogs and shops listed below for great blogs and crafts that are also helping in this campaign.
3. Join the Team
Join the Blog for Breasts Passionately Pink for the Cure group here.
There is no cost for you to join the team. All you need to do is have a blog or make a craft. Please post something on your blog or store, such as the badges below, to help raise awareness for breast cancer and the Passionately Pink for the Cure team. You may also want to offer a portion of your craft sales or blog income to Susan G. Komen foundatation through the Passionately Pink for the Cure group.
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I think it's wonderful that people want to help find a cure for cancer, BUT….
When you consider that we've donated and raised $20 billion towards cancer research, but we are no closer to a cure, than we were in 1971, then I think it's time to start asking some tough questions. We are still using inhumane treatments like chemotherapy, which is derived from mustard gas, and which causes further cancers down the track (which is terribly good for business, if you are a pharmaceutical company – repeat customer and all.)
The truth is that there are ALREADY cures for all kinds of cancer (just google gerson therapy, simoncini method, and have a read of "Breast Cancer Deception" which can be found via Google.) but these cures are not as profitable as drugs and surgery, so they never get any acknowledgement, even though they have an 80% – 90% success rate.
Oncology is one of the most profitable industries in the world, why would they find a cure? If they do discover a "cure", it will only be more (highly profitable) drugs.
For instance, who would be doing the research, that you are raising money for? Maybe Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research? Did you realise that many of the directors/board members are also involved in pharmaceutical companies, namely Bristol Myers-Squibb, the world's leading supplier of chemotherapy. Anyone seeing a conflict of interest here??? The only thing they are "researching" is ways to make more money.
I'm glad you want to help, and I applaud your compassion, I really do…I just think that raising money for big business to develop and patent more profitable drugs is not really the best way to help cancer sufferers. What we should be doing is kicking up a huge stink as to why natural cures are being suppressed, while people continue to suffer and die, all in the name of profit…
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