Why I Don't Race for the Cure

The following is a video from Chris at ChrisBeatCancer.com and it pretty much sums up my perspective on this issue.  I literally cringe when people start talking about how we need to raise money for a cancer "cure", as there are many treatments already available that can help you beat.

The bottom line is just as he says: Many of these "charities" are scams.  The following articles may also be of interest to you.

Cancer Reseach - A Super Fraud?

The Big Business of Breast Cancer (excerpt below)

"Though breast cancer researchers and advocates perpetually plead for more money, the disease is, in fact, awash in it. Last year, the National Institutes of Health, the nation's top agency for health-related research, allocated $763 million to the study of breast cancer, more than double what it committed to any other cancer. The Department of Defense also funds breast cancer research ($150 million this year), as do several states, most notably Texas and California. All that is in addition to the money raised by the roughly 1,400 IRS-recognized, tax-exempt charities in this country devoted to breast cancer. They operate in every state and in just about every major city. The largest of them, Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure, grossed $420 million last year alone. All told, an estimated $6 billion is raised every year in the name of breast cancer. And the money keeps pouring in...

What Do I Do Now?

The Big "C" Isn't Cancer

When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I was dumbfounded to say the least.  I just really didn't expect it.  I knew I had a lump, I could feel it.  Yet you just don't expect to hear those words, "You have cancer."

The thing which struck me first & most was the thought of my children having to grow up without their mother.  What was I going to tell them?

The next was coming face to face with my own mortality.  Was I going to die?  Why was I going to die?  Wasn't there still a lot God was going to use me for?  Had I completed my purpose in Him?  Was I going to die before my time (it sure felt like it)?

No, the Big "C" for me wasn't cancer, it was CRISIS...as in a crisis of faith.  Doubt poured in like a river and I felt lost; lost about why this was happening and lost about what to do next.