Comments on: Komen’s Planned Parenthood Decision a Victory, But a Small One: Challenging the Status Quo of Breast Cancer http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930 Tue, 07 May 2013 20:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Leah http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1701 Leah Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:58:55 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1701 Besides for diet and other toxic exposures, research need to address the following: 1)informing those with dense breast tissue so that they can have other screening besides mammography 2)more studies on aromatase inhibitors for use in post menopausal woman in order to prevent cancer as well as long term use (beyond 5 years) after breast cancer is diagnosed. Lifestyle choices play a part in the development of most cancers but few people bother to educate themselves and change their habits. Despite decades of warnings about obesity and smoking, these health hazards persist because people refuse to change. Besides for diet and other toxic exposures, research need to address the following:
1)informing those with dense breast tissue so that they can have other screening besides mammography
2)more studies on aromatase inhibitors for use in post menopausal woman in order to prevent cancer as well as long term use (beyond 5 years) after breast cancer is diagnosed.
Lifestyle choices play a part in the development of most cancers but few people bother to educate themselves and change their habits. Despite decades of warnings about obesity and smoking, these health hazards persist because people refuse to change.

]]> By: emmer http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1695 emmer Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:05:48 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1695 why is it that all the money goes to cure rather than prevention? does it have something to do with there being more money for someone (big pharma?) in cure than in prevention? could it be that prevention would find connections to those chemicals we all know are bad for living things and the high rate of cancers in the modern world? is it only that "cure" is heroic while "prevention" is boring? of course cure is important, but prevention is more so. why is it that all the money goes to cure rather than prevention? does it have something to do with there being more money for someone (big pharma?) in cure than in prevention? could it be that prevention would find connections to those chemicals we all know are bad for living things and the high rate of cancers in the modern world? is it only that “cure” is heroic while “prevention” is boring?
of course cure is important, but prevention is more so.

]]> By: Tallman Miller http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1684 Tallman Miller Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:42:46 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1684 Not enough attention has been paid to diet as a driver of cancer. The four fold increase in breast cancer since WWII means something is different now than it was before that, and diet is definitely one of those things we should be suspicious about. I am inclined to give my support to any group that will fund more research into this area that has been neglected because it goes against too many commercial interests. Not enough attention has been paid to diet as a driver of cancer. The four fold increase in breast cancer since WWII means something is different now than it was before that, and diet is definitely one of those things we should be suspicious about. I am inclined to give my support to any group that will fund more research into this area that has been neglected because it goes against too many commercial interests.

]]> By: patty martillaro http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1681 patty martillaro Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:31:48 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1681 More research money needs to go to the brave doctors who are researching alternative cures and treatments. There are several of these doctors and facilities in the US and many are being raided by the FDA! Why? Because the alternatives can not be patented which means Big Pharm can not make their billions of dollars. According to several cancer doctors, "a cure is sitting on the shelves of the research centers!" Let's change this! More research money needs to go to the brave doctors who are researching alternative cures and treatments. There are several of these doctors and facilities in the US and many are being raided by the FDA! Why? Because the alternatives can not be patented which means Big Pharm can not make their billions of dollars. According to several cancer doctors, “a cure is sitting on the shelves of the research centers!” Let’s change this!

]]> By: Diane E Smith http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1680 Diane E Smith Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:57:02 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1680 2-5-2012 Thought you might like to know I just sent this to Komen: Dear Komen leadership, You've got to be kidding. Ms. Brinker posts a video whinging about how your decision to defund PP was misunderstood, and now you reverse it by posting that sterile statement? Why not post another video and show us your feelings about restoring services to so many women? Brinker and Handel need to go. Deny that right-wing politics had anything to do with your decision all you want. However, it is impossible to look at how you shaped your criteria so that PP was the agency whose funding you hit and not see influence from anti-abortionists who can't see past one issue to saving women's lives. Ugh. I don't trust you anymore. You spend waaaaaay too much on your executives (Brinker really makes over $400,000? REALLY? AND SHE WANTS TO CUT OFF LIFE-SAVING SUPPORT TO WOMEN WHO HAVE NOTHING? WHAT WOULD SUSAN HAVE SAID?) and are waaaaaay too concerned about PP's involvement in abortion, for which your funding does not pay and which is a small fraction of what PP does. My money goes elsewhere. My sister died of breast cancer, and we have given yearly donations since then. Cancer Institute can get them from now on. Komen betrayed every women with that wrong-headed decision, and your saying that PP will be "eligible" doesn't change my understanding of the meanness and wrongheadedness of your leadership. I can just imagine your lawyers saying, "Restore it! Then cut back on how much you give! Fund them, but with less and less each year. The public will never know it." I don't trust you. You betrayed me. You betrayed any women who ever got breast cancer, died of it, or feared she would. My money goes elsewhere. Thanks, but no thanks. Diane 2-5-2012 Thought you might like to know I just sent this to Komen:

Dear Komen leadership,

You’ve got to be kidding. Ms. Brinker posts a video whinging about how your decision to defund PP was misunderstood, and now you reverse it by posting that sterile statement? Why not post another video and show us your feelings about restoring services to so many women?

Brinker and Handel need to go. Deny that right-wing politics had anything to do with your decision all you want. However, it is impossible to look at how you shaped your criteria so that PP was the agency whose funding you hit and not see influence from anti-abortionists who can’t see past one issue to saving women’s lives. Ugh.

I don’t trust you anymore. You spend waaaaaay too much on your executives (Brinker really makes over $400,000? REALLY? AND SHE WANTS TO CUT OFF LIFE-SAVING SUPPORT TO WOMEN WHO HAVE NOTHING? WHAT WOULD SUSAN HAVE SAID?) and are waaaaaay too concerned about PP’s involvement in abortion, for which your funding does not pay and which is a small fraction of what PP does.

My money goes elsewhere. My sister died of breast cancer, and we have given yearly donations since then. Cancer Institute can get them from now on.

Komen betrayed every women with that wrong-headed decision, and your saying that PP will be “eligible” doesn’t change my understanding of the meanness and wrongheadedness of your leadership. I can just imagine your lawyers saying, “Restore it! Then cut back on how much you give! Fund them, but with less and less each year. The public will never know it.”

I don’t trust you. You betrayed me. You betrayed any women who ever got breast cancer, died of it, or feared she would.

My money goes elsewhere.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Diane

]]> By: Sherry Woodward http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930&cpage=1#comment-1670 Sherry Woodward Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:44 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1930#comment-1670 Are you aware that the Susan > Komen organization brings in about 300 million dollars a year and only gives 25% of that money to cancer research!!! What do they do with the rest of the money? I think they bought pink shoes for some guy ball team, yes really they did this....... maybe jets, fancy vacations, fur coats??? They should be audited so that we the public can see. Maybe people would think twice about buying pink spatulas, and perfume that has cancer causing chemicals in it!!! Are you aware that the Susan > Komen organization brings in about 300 million dollars a year and only gives 25% of that money to cancer research!!! What do they do with the rest of the money?

I think they bought pink shoes for some guy ball team, yes really they did this……. maybe jets, fancy vacations, fur coats???

They should be audited so that we the public can see. Maybe people would think twice about buying pink spatulas, and perfume that has cancer causing chemicals in it!!!

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