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kerriffic · 01-01-2012, 07:52 AM

I would like to bring up an aspect of the whole cancer thing that has always irked me.

The amount of fundraising that the cancer societys do is commendable, however I am continually frustrated at the amount that actually goes towards "finding the cure"

http://list.moneysense.ca/rankings/c...2=1&d1=a&sc1=0

How is it that the heart and stroke foundation of BC can have 69% of donations go to their programs while the Cancer society of AB is only 42%?

Also directly from the Canadian Cancer Societys website "our fundraising expenses (excluding lotteries) are 32.1%." and "Of the funds directed to our mission work, research receives the largest amount – Last year, we directed almost 40% of these funds – $48 million to fund cancer research across Canada"

http://www.cancer.ca/Canada-wide/Abo...#ixzz1iDSZSJl9

I realize that they also fund other inititives, but as an example "The Canadian Breast Cancer foundations top earners made more than $120,000 last year -- and three of them made between $200,000 and $249,999". The Unfortunate thing is that it is not the selfless reseachers earning this money either.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201...#ixzz1iDVbN5Gf

I would be interested to know from the other CP'ers on here that appear to be more directly involved to know just how much filters down directly to the researcher looking for the cure. One of the posters above alluded to "starving". I was involved in medical research in Halifax in 2004 (diabetes related) and we were constantly almost begging for handouts to continue research.

This is where I can see people get mis-informed opinons and thoughts of conspiracy about a cure because when only a small part of your donation actually gets to the researcher it takes that much longer to perform your research (lab time costs alot).

So NO there is no conspiracy but cancer unfortunately IS a big business!

01-01-2012, 07:52 AM	#65
kerriffic Backup Goalie Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: St John's Exp:	Fundraising for cancer I would like to bring up an aspect of the whole cancer thing that has always irked me. The amount of fundraising that the cancer societys do is commendable, however I am continually frustrated at the amount that actually goes towards "finding the cure" http://list.moneysense.ca/rankings/c...2=1&d1=a&sc1=0 How is it that the heart and stroke foundation of BC can have 69% of donations go to their programs while the Cancer society of AB is only 42%? Also directly from the Canadian Cancer Societys website "our fundraising expenses (excluding lotteries) are 32.1%." and "Of the funds directed to our mission work, research receives the largest amount – Last year, we directed almost 40% of these funds – $48 million to fund cancer research across Canada" http://www.cancer.ca/Canada-wide/Abo...#ixzz1iDSZSJl9 I realize that they also fund other inititives, but as an example "The Canadian Breast Cancer foundations top earners made more than $120,000 last year -- and three of them made between $200,000 and $249,999". The Unfortunate thing is that it is not the selfless reseachers earning this money either. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201...#ixzz1iDVbN5Gf I would be interested to know from the other CP'ers on here that appear to be more directly involved to know just how much filters down directly to the researcher looking for the cure. One of the posters above alluded to "starving". I was involved in medical research in Halifax in 2004 (diabetes related) and we were constantly almost begging for handouts to continue research. This is where I can see people get mis-informed opinons and thoughts of conspiracy about a cure because when only a small part of your donation actually gets to the researcher it takes that much longer to perform your research (lab time costs alot). So NO there is no conspiracy but cancer unfortunately IS a big business!