Directors etc of charities earning mega-money.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING CHARITIES!!!!!
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There won't ever be a cure, just better treatments, with longer life expectancy, better quality of life, less side effects.
So with HIV, leukemia, breast cancer and other high profile diseases these areas are zipping as fast ahead as they can.
But take Autism which seems stuck in the thrall of voodoo cures for money, schizophrenia which is uncool and heart disease which is blamed more on life style are more stuck.
I guess the solution is more government directed research
For now on I'll give it to unsexy illnesses, which perversely include venereal disease.
Quote: Chappers @ 19th March 2014, 10:07 PM GMTDirectors etc of charities earning mega-money.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING CHARITIES!!!!!
One of the reasons I gave up working for charities was the number of dingbats who thought because you work for a charity, you should work for free, because they once gave 50p to breast cancer and now they have a sore nipple
Quote: sootyj @ 19th March 2014, 10:14 PM GMTThere won't ever be a cure
There are curable cancers already, also cure can mean different things, it can be catching a cancer early and after treatment never hearing from it again, it can mean responding really well to treatment but having to take medication to keep it from coming back. Just that doctors / consultants don't use the word cure much if at all as cancer is such an unknown quantity to deal with.
That's what I mean, is that it's damned close with certain highly funded illnesses.
Some are stuck in the dark ages. Manic depressives should not still be risking liver failure because they're taking drugs that are decades old.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 19th March 2014, 8:40 PM GMTTo raise breast cancer awareness, women have to post a selfie of themselves without any make up on. This will raise awareness.
Those who refuse or chicken out, have to make a donation to a breast cancer charity. Those women who do neither are scorned, insulted and castigated.
On my wall, it is Cancer Research UK who seem to be profiting - so not just breast cancer. Also, you must have mean friends - I just see lots of "your bootiful huni xxxxxxxx" type crap under the photos. No compulsion to donate.
Of course, the occasional man posts something like "to all my female friends - you all look so much more beautiful without make-up". Nothing like an opportunist.
I'm a bowel cancer supporter myself. A friend of a friend died from that disease aged just 31. I wear my Bowel Cancer UK running vest when I go jogging with pride.
Bowel cancer needs way more funding, friend of mine is fighting it and the odds are scary.
I'm glad I don't work for a charity any more, it's a mean old world.
Sorry to hear about your friend, Soots. 
F**king bastard cancer.
She's fighting it, she's quite a figher.
I'm far more likely to see her at my funeral than vice versa.
It's the pits but best you can do for her is just be there.
That much is true.
Although I'm looking for a palliative care charity I can support, perverse, but well I've always felt it was the quality of life not the length of it.
If people want to give to cancer charities, even though all of the breakthroughs come from universities, hospitals and research labs directly funded by the big drug companies, then they are more then welcome to.
Breast cancer is by far and away the most glamorous of the cancer charities - it attracts the most celebrities, publicity and column inches. The awareness of the disease is through the roof and there are a squillion different campaigns from the aforementioned colourful bra donations to women only fun runs and gala dinners.
I was merely picking up on the bullying, blackmail and peer pressure surrounding this one campaign. Either pose without make up or give us money...woman. May not have been in every case, but I saw it enough today to get the implied message. This supposed bit of fun had really dark undertones.
Quote: Jennie @ 19th March 2014, 10:38 PM GMTOf course, the occasional man posts something like "to all my female friends - you all look so much more beautiful without make-up". Nothing like an opportunist.
Bit of a doll either way...
Quote: sootyj @ 19th March 2014, 10:43 PM GMTBowel cancer needs way more funding, friend of mine is fighting it and the odds are scary.
I'm glad I don't work for a charity any more, it's a mean old world.
sorry to hear about your friend. I have coeliac disease which means I could get bowel cancer if I continued to eat wheat/gluten. It's sort become trendy to joke about people avoiding wheat/gluten. Whilst I often laugh at the gag and get that the person making it is proberly refering to those doing it to be healthy or just doesn't understand it, it maked me wonder they understood the potential consequence if they'd make same comment or joke about better known cancers.
Cancer charities, representing primary tumours of various locations, are competing with each other.
This was recently seen in the fight between the breast cancer and pancreatic cancer charities over the latter's controversial campaign:
The attitude of the PC charity was "Pancreatic Cancer needs more money. We barely get anything! Everyone is dying!".
The reaction from the BC gang was pretty much "Well, more people get breast cancer. And you're f**ked either way with Pancreatic Cancer, so what's the point in wasting the money?".
Not saying either side is 100% wrong, but there's something strange about different cancer locations being at each other's throats. But I guess every pound given to breast cancer, isn't being given to pancreatic (etc.) cancer, so it's kinda inevitable.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 19th March 2014, 8:40 PM GMTMore breast cancer charity blackmail happening all over Facebook. This is their latest scam to get chicks to cough up dough -
To raise breast cancer awareness, women have to post a selfie of themselves without any make up on.
There's a pretty loose interpretation of what constitutes 'no make up', and some other women are outraged about what they see as cheating.