Targeted for fundraising

I think it's ridiculess that they would ask for a donation from a CA patient. I'd tell them I'm the one that needs the donation, not the other way around.

Hippa laws would most likely prevent a hospital from giving your info to anyone, but I know that a local CA fundraiser here, gave out a list of previous patient names to a BC survivors group that was just starting up.

I was going to join up and be on the "support call list" until they said I'd have to take traing from the ACS. Like going through it yourself isn't good enough.

Hope:  If you're up to it, I'd suggest calling the CEO's office of the hospital where you were treated, and ask them their policy of either soliciting patients or providing names of their patients to related organizations.  It's unconscionable that your name/phone number, coupled with your dx, was given to any organization.  I also suspect it's against the law.

On the other hand, it might have been a random call and the solicitor -- knowing that there really aren't many families out there who HAVEN'T been touched by cancer -- simply followed her telemarketing script.  If you remember the name of the organization she represented, I'd give them a call too, to complain.

And if you still don't get any satisfaction, send a letter to your local newspaper, outlining your annoyance and frustration with this type of telemarketing.  It would make a good story and I bet a reporter would follow it up with you.

Good luck, hon!

Linda