Where does all the Komen for the Cure money really go?

The health care industry is not the least bit interested in curing cancer, there is no money in it. They want to manage cancer so we take along time to die of it at a huge cost.

I still maintain that my father's life could have been saved had doctors tried to surgically remove the 2 centimeter tumor. Instead they did not want to do it because where the tumor was it would have been a risky surgery.

They gave him chemo and radiation and kept telling him that it was working so he would keep going for treatment. All along they knew that he kept getting worse and they were only prolonging and adding to his misery. All of this for their profit with no concern for my father's life.

keep your body alkaline and cancer can't exist. all lobbies are mostly interested in their own preservation first...much like our gov't and its corporate owners

thank you! Cancer is big business, as are many charities. They are the pinnacle of the white trash mantra "as long as it looks good". I have been wondering about the billions pumped into cancer charities over the last 40 years and still no cures that people can obtain and the ones there are? unaffordable.

This is big business now. Just looking at the corporate sponsors lends suspicions to the motives. There are cures that are suppressed because the money made from suppressing them is far more important than the cure. I know that now. Wish I knew it when I was 17. I might have been able to save my mother.

Much appreciated post Pianorama. danka and +^d!

Some go into research, the rest in the rich pocket.

I am very leary of all "charities" that supposedly support research for cancer cures. I donate to not a one of them; even if I could afford to, I do not see a one of them that actually provides help to the patients who suffer the most and have the fewest resources to rely on. I see all of these prgrams as flashy, polished schmes to keep their industry on top. They are pulling in huge amounts of money and spending HUGE amounts of money on slick advertisements to seek more donors.

So few actually give to patients and their families while spending millions on nonresearch as means of self-perpetuation. Surely, the execs of these big corporations are hauling in huge compensation packages. I think the whole this is sick.

If anyone has money to give, it would be best to places like Ronald McDonald House and St Jude's Childrens hospitals. To blindly give is to blindly be feeding into big corporations and big Pharma.

Nothing wrong with questioning where the money goes, but something tells me the scrutiny is another attack against women's health. No one has questioned where the muscular dystrophy money has gone and the millions spent on the sex lives of insects. Could this be just another way to attack Komen and destroy a big arena for women's issues? I swear , some of these attacks seem like they want to take us back to the Puritan Days. Sorry,Pianorama but I'm not convinced.Smells a little like tea.Give it a little more thought.

Thank you, PIANORAMA! The Komen Foundation has sold its soul to Big Pharma and Corporate America to increase their proftitability not to find a cure. Like the article says, if a cure is found, this foundation no longer has a need to exist. It is terrible that so many unsuspecting women have been lead to believe, Komen is their salvation, when in fact it's what holds back many viable treatment options for millions of women. When I heard that Mrs. Joe Lieberman was on their board, that was all I needed to hear about their credibility. I'm tired of the pink washing campaigns that only plump up corporate bottom lines and do very little to help find a cure. Some of their corporate partners are a disgrace to the idea of truly finding a cure. I'm tired of going to stores and being inundated with pink washing. For an excellent take on the way the pink ribbon culture exploits the sick, read Chapter 1 of Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent book "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America"

"Nowhere on [the Pink United] site does it offer links to alternative (and far more successful) cancer treatments than those offered by the ‘poison, cut and burn’ till-death-do-you-part methodology that is the standard model of ‘care’ offered by Western medicine."

Perhaps not, but the author does not provide links either. I would like to see some scientific data to back up the claim that alternative treatments are more effective than to just take him at his word. This article asks "Where does all the Komen money go?" but the underlying article seems more focused on Whole Foods California and Pink United, which from what I gather is a portion but not "all" of the Komen Foundation money.

Not sure what people expect sometimes when they donate money to charities. There is no Breast Cancer Fairy. Administration takes money, and unfortunately it has to be run like a business. Paying a CEO $500,000 seems exorbitant, but if he brings in tenfold or more to the foundation it might be better than paying less money to someone who is less effective. There are a lot of moving parts in a charitable foundation and broad, blanketing assertions often serve only to hurt a cause in the long run.

Isn't that always the case? Where money is involved, there's vultures that swoop down to strip a good "cause" to the bone. Like what happened to Haiti. All that money raised and who got the lion's share? Corporations and wealthy "charities".

And when the vutures are done the hyennas come in to chew the bones, leaving NOTHING for who it was originally intended.

Welcome to the world of simulation. It's taught in universities and business schools everywhere. Perception we are told is more important than reality.

But what happens when the perception is corrupt and perverse? Then that becomes our reality is as well. The distance between reality and perception is slim, and realities arise from perception.

The way we sell shaving cream and cars has become the way we conceive of good and evil. Morality and charity when subjected to the methods by which we are persuaded to choose our jeans are transmogrified into the synthetic and the simulated that is the plastic wrapper squeezing our souls.

The oceans are full of plastic compounds as a result of our consumption of disposable products. These compounds leach poison into the water and air, resulting in the deaths of millions of sea creatures and increased rates of cancer in humans. Until we control our consumption of plastic products, no charity organization will cure cancer.

That makes me sick, and angry. Taking advantage of illness and people's good will in such an underhanded and despicable way. I almost feel like I need to go throw up.