My mom was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer and our friends are throwing her a party and a percentage of the proceeds will go to a charity of my mom's choice. The only foundation we are really familiar with is Susan G. Komen. Are there any others out there that we should do more research on before deciding which organization to donate to?
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Komen is a pretty good choice in my book: much of the money is targeted at groundbreaking research, they use money to help low income women get mammograms, and they have a very informative and likely very expensive web site. It is also 4-star rated at Charity Navigator.
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The Breast Cancer Screening Mistake Millions Make… Posted By Dr. Mercola | October 15 2010 | 18,197 views A Close to ZERO Percent Benefit … In the latest study, researchers analyzed data from over 40,000 Norwegian women with breast cancer and found that those who had mammograms and were treated by special breast cancer medical teams had a 10 percent lower breast cancer death rate than women who had neither. However, they also found that women over the age of 70 who were treated by the special teams had an 8 percent lower death risk from breast cancer, even though they had not received mammograms. What this suggests, and what Dr. H. Gilbert Welch wrote in an accompanying editorial, is that mammograms may have only reduced the cancer death rate by 2 percent -- an amount so small it may as well be zero. So the fact remains that there is no solid evidence that mammograms save lives. Past research has also demonstrated that adding an annual mammogram to a careful physical examination of the breasts does not improve breast cancer survival rates over getting the examination alone. Now, if mammograms were completely safe and capable of reducing your cancer death risk even a small amount, you might be able to make an argument for their use. But mammograms are not only ineffective … they're unsafe as well
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