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edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Breast Health and Healing Foundation
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy, a breast cancer surgeon, created the Breast Health & Healing Foundation in April 2008 when, after years treating patients, she came to the realization that working toward a "cure" was simply not enough.

    She realized that even if she could cure every single woman with breast cancer, there would still be hundreds of new cases every day — more than a million new cases around the world each year. No, "cure" was not enough.

    Dr. Ruddy knew there were plenty of breast cancer foundations, some of them very powerful. Undaunted by the prospects of competing with giants, Dr. Ruddy pressed on, because THIS FOUNDATION IS DIFFERENT.  Dr. Ruddy is looking for the causes of breast cancer —  the "pure cure."

    Dr. Ruddy realized that despite the fact that the world was awash in pink ribbons it was, nevertheless, time for a CHANGE. It was time for a new way of thinking about breast cancer: it was time to discover the causes of breast cancer and use that knowledge to prevent the disease.

    In her own words, "We must find the causes of breast cancer, and we must use this knowledge to prevent the disease."

    Dr. Ruddy's journey in the fight against breast cancer began in 1973, when her own mother was diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Ruddy's career over the past thirty-five years has continued her unrelenting quest to understand the nature of this disease. 

    Dr. Ruddy created the Breast Service at Clara Maass Medical Center in 1995. She has cared for thousands of women with breast disease, and she has helped cure hundreds of women with breast cancer. Despite her successes, and despite the successes of the medical community, Dr. Ruddy knows that "cure" — treatment — is not enough.

    Unlike other foundations that are primarily focused on finding cures for breast cancer, the Breast Health & Healing Foundation seeks to discover its causes. In a world where over a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year it only makes sense to finally answer the question, "Why are all of these women getting breast cancer?"

    Once we understand the causes of breast cancer we will be able to prevent the disease. Doesn't this make sense? Won't this save more lives, as well as money? Why not discover the causes of breast cancer and spare women the torment of spending the rest of their lives trying to find a cure?

    While we continue to care diligently and compassionately for those women who have breast cancer, and while we continue to work hard to find cures for them, the Breast Health & Healing Foundation adds a new perspective and a fresh approach.

    It's about time…to discover the causes of breast cancer.  It's about time for the pure cure.

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

    Deb Bailey of Power Women magazine suggested I start a petition to raise awareness of, and funding for, the first preventive breast cancer vaccine, developed by Professor Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic last year.  Tuohy’s vaccine is 100% effective in preventing breast cancer in mice, capable of slowing the growth of tumors that have already formed, and effective against a line of triple-negative breast cancer cells.

    Tuohy’s vaccine is ready for safety testing in women.  The next step is to begin clinical trials to see if this, the world’s first preventive breast cancer vaccine, is as safe and effective in women as it is in mice.  If so, it will eliminate 95% of all breast cancer within ten years.

    The Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation refuses to fund clinical trials for Tuohy’s vaccine.  They have turned him down on three separate occasions.  Of course, they give a long list of cogent arguments to justify their opposition, preceded by a glowing compliment for his momentous discovery.  But Komen is run by monied interests that profit only as long as breast cancer thrives.  Buckets for the cure, indeed.

    The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade will not even consider funding Tuohy’s vaccine.  As a poor relation to the giant, Komen, they have only $100,000 (per grant) to spare, and they don’t care to spend it there.  Their army is bringing up Komen’s rear, and they’re both headed in the direction of breast cancer becoming a chronic disease.

    The National Breast Cancer Coalition has decided they might do better than Tuohy – (better than 100%?)  - and wish to create a similar vaccine themselves, within ten  years.  If that is not a power grab, there’s no such thing.  And like all power grabs, it’s transparent.  Shockingly so.

    The federal government is not interested, not at this point at least.  They’re busy frying Komen’s fish.

    If we want to have the chance for a preventive breast cancer vaccine, our opportunity is sitting on the shelf at the Cleveland Clinic collecting dust right now!

    Please sign the following petition at change.org.  This organization successfully wiped out Bank of America’s hair brain scheme for charging $5 per month on personal bank accounts.  Saving $60 per year for millions of customers is a worthy goal.  But saving 1.5 million lives per year is noble.  Please help.  Please sign the petition and pass it on via social media to every wisp in the cloud.

    Thank you.

    http://www.change.org/petitions/how-to-cook-a-revolution

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