Breast Cancer awareness bucket seats?

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

Something like 15% of their money goes to research and the CEO makes $400K a year. It's a business venture disguised as a nonprofit organization. Plus, it's a relatively minor, pretty survivable cancer, as far as cancers go. There are other cancers that are much more serious and deadly that get no funding or attention because they're not flashy and about boobies.

thats not a good way to look at it. breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women. the only reason that it is "relatively minor" is because of the awareness provided. annual screenings and gene receptor tests and such allow us to be proactive and catch the disease in the early process.

[pushrod]

http://imgur.com/AJIUUmd

[RoadKillGrill]

Originally Posted by pushrod

http://imgur.com/AJIUUmd

But.... boobs......

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by RoadKillGrill

But.... boobs......

They're in good hands already.

[djmm]

Now first of all what the heck are breast awareness seats? Seats shaped like pink ribbon?

[@Art_Mighty]

Originally Posted by djmm

Now first of all what the heck are breast awareness seats? Seats shaped like pink ribbon?

... probably something like these

[djmm]

I'm all for supporting the cause but man those seats look tacky as hell

[extrashaky]

Can anyone tell me where I can find some ebola awareness seats?

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by pushrod

http://imgur.com/AJIUUmd

just think about that for a minute...heard disease, copd, and diabetes are the top killers ahead of breast cancer. did you ever think that maybe all that donation actually is working? did you ever consider that leading causes for heart disease is diet/exercise, leading cause for copd is smoking, and leading cause for diabetes is diet? what causes breast cancer? things that arent controlled by the patient. how many billions do we need to donate to tell people smoking is bad or that mcdonalds will kill you? does that require more money than creating reliable and available her2/new tests?

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Can anyone tell me where I can find some ebola awareness seats?

Those have a brown ribbon, symbolizing puking and shitting yourself.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by fatoni

did you ever think that maybe all that donation actually is working?

Correlation does not imply causation. How do we know heart disease, copd, and diabetes haven't always been more deadly than breast cancer? Also, with the advances in medical imaging and overall science, we have no way of knowing if the donations have contributed at all to a decline in mortality, or if it was just medical advances. Further, as you note, people eat more and keep smoking. It wasn't all that long ago that cigarettes were advertised as having health benefits. The rise of heart disease, copd, and diabetes are completely independent of any decline of breast cancer as killers.

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

Correlation does not imply causation. How do we know heart disease, copd, and diabetes haven't always been more deadly than breast cancer? Also, with the advances in medical imaging and overall science, we have no way of knowing if the donations have contributed at all to a decline in mortality, or if it was just medical advances. Further, as you note, people eat more and keep smoking. It wasn't all that long ago that cigarettes were advertised as having health benefits. The rise of heart disease, copd, and diabetes are completely independent of any decline of breast cancer as killers.

well i happen to have been a medical imager for years and am currently a radiation therapist. these are areas im fairly familiar with. i dont care enough to get into it but it doesnt matter if heart disease has always been more lethal. what matters is how effective your dollars are.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by fatoni

well i happen to have been a medical imager for years and am currently a radiation therapist. these are areas im fairly familiar with. i dont care enough to get into it but it doesnt matter if heart disease has always been more lethal. what matters is how effective your dollars are.

Well there you have it. You know better than most how much better imaging is today vs. 10-20 years ago. And you're right, what matters is how effective donations are. So why would someone donate to an organization where only 15 cents of every dollar goes towards research?

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

Well there you have it. You know better than most how much better imaging is today vs. 10-20 years ago. And you're right, what matters is how effective donations are. So why would someone donate to an organization where only 15 cents of every dollar goes towards research?

well thats one foundation. not what breast cancer gets but do you know how much those other foundations give? if not, that number means nothing. id also like to see where that information came from.