porcupine-girl:emmalily:offending-the-offended:imaginarycircus:sofia-ciel:alexithymia42:blockmind:he
porcupine-girl:emmalily:offending-the-offended:imaginarycircus:sofia-ciel:alexithymia42:blockmind:hello-missdolly:beanmom:nospockdasgay:redbloodedamerica:mallninjacode:pual1010:brownglucose:stunningpicture:So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.Stay wokeIs this true?Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORSTSome links…http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bitthat’s right frackingyou know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worstKomen For The Cure is pretty much awful.My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:Breast Cancer Research FoundationCancer Research InstituteDana-Farber Cancer Institute63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigatorSignal boosting thisReblogging from myself because it’s October nowAlso, Komen has a history of erasing Stage IV patients because those women are most likely going to die and that goes against their feel-good message. You’ll hardly ever see a woman in Stage IV in their promotional stuff.6-10% of women with breast cancer are at Stage IV when they’re diagnosed, and 30% will get there at some point. The 5-year survival rate for women in Stage II is 90%, Stage III is 72%, but Stage IV is only 22%.Plus, even though 30% of breast cancer patients are in Stage IV and nearly 80% of those women will die in the next five years, only about 2% of research money goes to Stage IV research.So anyhow, Metavivor is a charity that is solely devoted to raising money to fund research into Stage IV breast cancer.Sadly, I know all of this because a friend of mine from high school was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer in her mid-30s. She’s currently in complete remission three years later, but she knows that the odds aren’t on her side to see her two daughters grow up.And here’s an article about Komen and Stage IV, by another friend from high school, who survived breast cancer in her 20s. -- source link
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