Here’s a quick video I shot to explain why I don’t Race for the Cure, buy pink products, wear a Livestrong bracelet, grow a moustache for Movember, and generally oppose most cancer charities.
So apparently a few people on youtube were bothered by the fact that with this was shot in a car while I was driving.
If you pay close attention you will see that for the first 45 seconds I am stopped at a red light. For the next 45 seconds I am driving and talking with my eyes on the road, a much safer situation than texting or fiddling with the radio. And for the remaining four minutes I am parked in a parking lot.
Here are a few of the good cancer charities that I know of and endorse:
Komen Watch www.komenwatch.org
American Anti-Cancer Institute www.americanaci.org
Breast Cancer Action www.bcaction.org
The Independent Cancer Research Foundation www.new-cancer-treatments.org
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Thank you, Chris. Thank you for articulating what I have long felt. Peace to you and to your family.
Thank you for making and posting this video! I agree with you 100%! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for shedding light on this subject. I couldn’t agree more!!
Hi Chris, I am a 12 yr Breast Cancer survivour who did go through the big three and would NEVER do it again. I don’t even have mammograms these days.
Like you I do NOT give to cancer charities and agree they are the biggest con out there.
I am also a life coach and spend much time working with cancer patients, helping them to recover from the ordeal and stay healthy. I also blog about alternatives from my site walkawayfromcancer.com and share news that is often controversial.
I will absolutely recommend this video to my readers, thanks for sharing.
Coach Lin
Thank you! I have struggled with this issue for a while, glad to know I’m not alone.
So glad you are exposing this Chris. A few years ago I was challenged to research the history of the pink ribbon. Don’t remember much about it, but the idea was stolen from the peach ribbon. I think it came from MIke Adams, Natural Cures. Check it out. The more awareness you can disseminate the better. People are wanting to do good, but are gullible because they don’t check it out. Like me, when I forward a legitimate looking FW and it turns out to be spurious. Keep up the good work.
Pink Ribbons Inc. is an excellent documentary that discusses this topic. I have never had a mammogram and I never will. I no longer have a family doctor because she told me I was putting my life at risk by not going for a mammogram! If I learn that I have cancer I will never go for chemo or radiation. This horrible scam has to be exposed. Stay healthy.
Absolutely, Chris. I love it when I see discernment in action:o) I love being able to communicate with others in America who see through the frauds being perpetuated upon the American people! So many don’t, and it is truly sad.
Darlene, I wholeheartedly agree with you! I will not do any of those things either. My mother died at the hands of doctors doing experiments on her to “treat” her breast cancer. They may have meant well, but these doctors need to wake up to reality. I would say their own careers and money were the true motivations behind what they were doing, because they did it without really questioning if what they were doing was, in fact, healing. It’s time for conventional medical doctors to wake up, as well as be held accountable to their “treatment” methods. They are to FIRST, do no HARM.
Question, question, question EVERYTHING is what I have learned in life:o)
I saw a PINK water delivery truck the other day. Could not believe it.
I also agree with you Chris. I too am a former cancer patient. People need to educate themselves.
I agree with you Chris! I hope more people will watch this video and all of the info you are presenting on your blog.
Hi Chris! All I can say is I’m so with you! This year I had the same diagnosis as you and in 2010 I had a lumpectomy, Stage 1 breast cancer. For both I have had surgery but no chemo or radiation. When I found your website I couldn’t believe how much it mirrored my thoughts and beliefs. I go to a great Doc who shares our beliefs at Oasis of Hope in Orange County, Ca. You went through the same process of awareness as I did and many others. Thank you SO much for sharing and keeping up with this website. I am with you 100 percent and am doing great and looking forward to the same result that you have had. Continued good health to you and God Bless!
This is just ONE of many. How nice for the drug makers to have added income – helps make up the loss to the FDA? I have read/heard that the 40% of the operating budget for the FDA comes from drug makers. Makes you think! Research, really? It is TOO big of a money maker for a “cure” The cancer machine is well oiled by too many to stop, now. I was shocked to hear of one drug rep that revealed many times the chemo was merely 4 to 6% effective and in order to sell to the doctors – THEY LIED and changed the reports to make it look as if it were 40% effective. Just to make the sell. No matter what human (possibly their kids one day) was having their stem cells burned away – the most important aspect was THE SELL. Marketing. Marketing. Marketing. If it is on tv or in magazines – we will blindly believe.
Continued health to you Chris! Thank you for the truth.
Race for the cure? Or to pay the retirement salaries of Execs? Read this and you will never sweat for these greedy guys again! Here’s a letter to the Editor I wrote last year: http://post-register.com/opinions/letters-relay-for-life-reader-says-%E2%80%98just-do-the-math%E2%80%99/
AND…my son had aplastic anemia and had a bone marrow transplant. He is alive because of my “interference” with natural medicine.
The only reason i’d go to a race for the cure is to walk along with everyone, holding up a sign with the pie chart of what the charity money is actually being used for.
WOW! Love this video! My father died from throat cancer and everytime I see pink I puke.
I’m posting this link to this video on my site soon. Love your site and what your about.
Stormy
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I can not thank you enough for standing up and making this video. I’ve been fighting Stage IV Inflammatory breast cancer since 2006 and I have never ever ever support “the pink ribbon” mainly because it doesn’t pertain to me, I’m not a “survivor”, I’m a “METavivor” because I am living with cancer. Komen and all of those other organizations do very little to support stage IV breast cancer. Please try to get the word out about all of us women & men who are living with cancer.
It’s the nutrition that’s a lot of the reason for the recovery. People don’t realize how today’s food is so lacking in basic nutrients. We’re all literally starving even though many Americans are overweight. Ironic, yes. Nutrients will fuel the immune system!
Thank you so much for posting this! This info is so important to communicate to the masses. I will re-post on FB. Thank you! You’re awesome!
I agree that a lot of this is a con but I do not think that you should throw all cancer organizations under the bus. My family has started a non-profit cancer organization for people and families effected by Sarcoma. We give back to the FAMILIES, so there are a lot of good cancer organizations out there you just have to do research! We have done a lot of good and helped a lot of people which wouldn’t of happened without the donations from others.
Feel free to share a link to it.
Thanks you Chris! My eyes opened to a brand new level! I live in Canada and we have the health care system in place and it baffles me how people just get their medicards swiped so freely,unchecked, as if we do not pay for this system! No one would ever dare to question the ”ethics” of the run for the cure, pink ribbon cause among many of them. I’ve got to get the word out…this is ridiculous!