Asking Komen to commit more funding to research and innovation

yuxinma2002

One of my colleagues' mother died of breast cancer last week. I was more angry than sad. I was surprised that in spite of significant improvement in treatment, doctors today still treat breast cancer similarly as they did 30 years ago: surgery, chemo, and radiation. We need a cure for breast cancer instead of just education and awareness. I was surprised that Susan Komen for the Cure Foundation, a leading non-profit for breast cancer, only spends 18% of their funding on research and innovation. Please sign this petition to ask Komen to spend at least 50% of their funding on research and innovation. One out of eight American women develop breast cancer during their life time. About 95% of the people who died of breast cancer started out as having early stage breast cancer, so awareness and early detection does not guarantee survival. What is needed is more research and innovation to find a cure so that breast cancer at any stage can be cured! Below is a petition to ask Komen to spend at least half of their funding on research.

https://www.change.org/p/keep-a-breast-foundation-i-ask-that-komen-commit-at-least-50-of-total-donations-to-medical-research-and-innovation-rather-than-to-awareness-and-education-i-request-all-other-breast-cancer-non-profits-do-the-same

Rebecca

hopefour

Thank you for bringing this to our attention by posting this! I have already signed and hope many of my stage III sisters will consider doing so also! More funds need to be allocated for a cure!

tangandchris

I have signed....I will pass this on as well thank you.

Deblc

Thanks for posting this here. I posted it in two other threads but did not want to annoy people by posting it too many times

cam243

Signed. Passing this on to friends and people on other websites.

Momine

I signed it via FB and reposted on FB to encourage friends to do the same.

Sweetb

I too have just signed this and re-posted on Facebook. It is not fair that other countries are researching less barbaric methods to cancer treatments such as sound waves to kill cancer cells, or Chinese medicine, or essential oils, yet in our country it seems that we only maintain Cancer with the same methods that have been used for over 30 years strictly for profit. It is not right, and it's not fair. No one should have to go through cancer. With as long as cancer has been around and all the money that goes into the "non-profit" end, how are we not closer to a cure? Chemo, Mastectomy, and Radiation seem so barbaric, like blood letting with leeches in the 19th century. There has to be a better way. Sorry I an going on about this but I am going through the chemo part of my lovely breast cancer journey right now and it has not been easy. I went from an extremely healthy and active person to feeling like a 90 year old woman and when I see the Susan G. Komen commericals on TV it makes me want to scream.

MusicLover

The petition needs 900 more signatures to make 7,500. 

Anonymous

Rebecca - read the article & signed it. I also believe we are lied to about the numbers. I believe it to be more like 1 in 6 women will get BC. I base that on all the women I personally know with it. And two that I know started out as Stage 1 & 2 and one has passed away at age 41 and the other has a recurrence. Seriously how in the heck do we keep a 'positive' outlook when it seems we're not making any progress for the cure???

Anonymous

I asked my onc 2 weeks ago what new drugs or therapy were on the horizon for BC? She said the only new drugs being tested are for stage 4. This makes me so mad. It's like trying to put out a big fire with a squirtgun! Shouldn't we be researching/testing new therapies at every stage?

Momine

Shelly56, to be fair, there is also a large, international trial in progress testing neuvax vaccine to prevent recurrence.

Anonymous

Momine, let's hope if that international trial vaccine proves effective, that they fast track it into production. It will be interesting to see it's progress.

farmerjo

Bump.

Momine

Shelly56, as far as I know the trials are in phase 3 at this point and they have a lot of testing sites, both in Europe and the US. This means that it is showing some promise and that it has already moved ahead quite quickly. It is not a cure either, but for those of us who are high risk, getting a new treatment that is not toxic and that might keep mets in check for a long time would be good news. If it turns out that it could also be given as prevention, along the lines of hormonal treatment, that would be even better.

kar123

Oh Momine, wouldn't that be awesome!

JohnSmith

This thread caught my eye. I signed.

2,213 signatures needed to reach 10,000

It should be moved outside the "Stage III Breast Cancer" section as it warrants a larger audience.

@Deblc, if you are monitoring this thread, can you edit your post above and add links to the other threads you created?

Thanks!

MusicLover

JohnS, She also put a thread like this up under the advocacy title, I just bumped it so it is on the first page of active topics.