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  • Lynn18
    Lynn18 Member Posts: 416
    edited July 2011

    1.  Breast cancer is not preventable.

    2.  ACS does not "cause" cancer, nor do the CDC, AMA, etc.

    If you would like to learn more about cancer, I suggest reading "The Emperor of all Maladies". 

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  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 3,646
    edited July 2011

    Really, I'm fine with everyone trashing their overhead costs, but the ACS does not cause cancer.  It existed long before the ACS, AMA, etc were a glint in anyone's eyes.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    Want to echo what Lynn18 is saying - read the Emperor of all Maladies.  Cancer breakthroughs have languished because the establishment keeps going down these blind alleys and lingering there sometimes for 10, 20, 30 years.  I hate to see us go down another one called "prevention" and linger there for another 10 years.

    I also want to emphasize the futility of "awareness".  I am constantly alarmed regarding the number of young childbearing women joining these boards.  Women with young children.  Women at the peak off their earning capacity.  Many of these women are Stage IV at diagnosis.  Since mammos and self exams do not work as well for them, how does "awareness" help.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2011

    Yes - Epstein's blaming the ACS for a non-cure is a bit much. I blame more universal human frailties, as well as the sheer difficulty of the "case."

    BTW, we should be mindful of not posting entire articles. It is a violation of copyrights laws. Two or three paragraphs with the link is fine.  

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited July 2011

    Prevention is the cure..... at least in a way.  We can do what we can do to convey that avoiding hormone laden food, avoiding alchohol and tobacco, avoiding carcinogens and getting plenty of exercise may keep us healthier.

    Let's go after BIG SODA rather than organizations that do anything to fight cancer..

    apple who hates cancer and now doesn't drink soda but will have a beer occasionally or a glass of wine if it is not gutrot.

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  • ICanDoThis
    ICanDoThis Member Posts: 1,473
    edited July 2011

    Publisher - Amazon relationships and publisher profit margins

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    2tzus:

    The book is very intense and a couple of times I've put it down for a day and read a mystery.  The author is so good - so talented, you really can't stop reading, for the most part.

    Carol

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited July 2011

    Awesome book, indde. So well written that it reads easily. Have it on my Kindle, and will finish it up soon. It is powerful and disturbing, and quite the eye-opener.

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  • Yazmin
    Yazmin Member Posts: 840
    edited July 2011

    Frankly, I don't think that the ACS is causing cancer.

    But I do think that they ought to be putting more funding into the fight against cancer. And their top retirees could still live the good life on just a little less?

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  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 3,646
    edited July 2011

    I hate the whole Pink October thing as much as the next person, but don't more women get diagnosed with BC in October because the attention leads them to get screened?  I thought I read that somewhere.

    There's a link to a study on the breastcancer.org home page finding that mammograms do save lives.  I don't have a dog in that fight as I have dense breasts and mammograms are of limited value for me. 

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited July 2011

    About the "retired" individuals on the ACS 990 for the year 2008 (reported in 2009): the 990 form says they all worked in 2008, and retired at some point in 2008, and will receive no further compensation from ACS. This is all spelled out in the "notes" pages (pp 58-62 of the PDF) following the "compensation" form (page 57 of the PDF).  Of the "7 million dollars paid to retired people" -- $2 million is deferred compensation, i.e., pensions that will be paid out over the remainder of their retirement, but reported to IRS in the year of their retirement.

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited July 2011

    AnnNYC, Thanks for this information.

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