Are We Fighting Breast Cancer All Wrong?
Charities and the government spend millions, but the rate of breast cancer is actually going up.
The fight against breast cancer receives an enormous amount of both public and private money, and with good reason — it’s the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. But the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year keeps climbing, and a growing chorus of critics are asking whether the money is going to the right things.
A government-commissioned report issued in February noted that research funding has tended to focus on breast cancer treatment, not causes. And some breast cancer charities spend large chunks of their money on public education and awareness, which don’t address root causes either. Meanwhile, some companies that donate to breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure make products that may cause breast cancer. While treatment and education are clearly important, directing more attention to breast cancer’s causes may be the only way to truly slow its rise.
Will Herrmann contributed data analysis.
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tammylouiseg 2 months agoI’m not positive were these facts came from or perhaps its simply because those little pies do not show that only 3% of the billions raised for this disease go to research or support for those whom are actually going to lose the fight to this disease.. As an individual with stage IV breast cancer to my bones,liver,brain and now lung I believe researching a cure by far surpasses the need for discovering where it comes from as i shouldnt according to statistics even be battling this disease.. The sadder side thats not shown in that pie up there is that despite all the billions raised the survival rates for this disease have not changed nor increased in the past 20yrs. despite the billions that have been raised and spent to spread about a bunch of pink ribbons and useless chochkeys we see everywhere during the month of October.. I think people need to wake up to the reality that this disease is on the rise just like every other cancer due to many issues in our society and focus on the cure and treatment of this disease.. This article saddens me that people would ignore once again how little goes to the research of actually saving a life and try to shift it towards finding a cause to a disease that has elluded scientists for years if they could find a cause no cancers would exist its a silly notion at best.. We need a cure not wasted money trying to spread awareness or find a cause as people are dying everyday!!
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theresap6 2 months agoHere is my commentary: Thank you SO MUCH CJ for taking the time to break it all down! It makes no sense for anyone to mislead the public with these erroneous pie charts and falsified stats! It makes no sense that the very organizations that are collecting the most, are giving the least (To stage IV research) and yet, as we have already seen early on this year with bravado propaganda floating around on social media sites stating that research is not an issue when it comes to death-in their minds, prevention is worth a pound of cure but try telling that to a patient that has just been sent home from a cancelled clinical trial because of the sequestration act’s federal funding budget cuts or tell a young child that their metastatic/stage IV mother cannot benefit from a new novel chemo drug that may extend her life, and may even reverse the cancer entirely because again, the budget cuts have shelved millions of dollars of vital breast cancer research-and for several years to come! Their are so many scientists working on many various pathways of biologic technology-all breast cancers are not the same and we here so many times from recurring patients-“WHY ME” when they were told they caught it early…..I here so much now in the news about cancer and obesity-“If you eat right and exercise, your risk of BC decreases by…..here it comes…..wait for it……..The pie chart say’s XXX%, but then the pie chart also read’s XXX%, and this is why there is so much confusion-please show us a pie chart that makes sense-one that is proportionate to all breast cancer patients! Stop focusing on prevention as the rates of death have not changed in decades and this should tell even the most uninformed person out there that the issue remains the same and unchanged-if we expect the scientific community to prevent cancer, then we should also expect them to be able to stop it from killing us but all the money that could drive this sword is sadly being wasted on millions of dollars of unnecessary early prevention campaign ads and if anyone has been listening, even ACS is now campaigning to stand up and make some noise as the cuts are serious folks-let’s get our priorities straight for once!
http://metavivor-blog.com/blog/2013/03/27/cancer-prevention-underfunded-or-overfunded/ -
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Holly Gofightly 3 months agoAnyone else amused by the use of a Kellogg’s product to illustrate a point about General Mills?
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