Susan G. Koman

[thyme4change]

I'm sick of the whole pink ribbon campaign. I know the irony is I will die young of aggressive breast cancer, but I really don't care to buy a bag of pasta with a reminded to feel myself up.

Now I see that they are starting a campaign to encourage men to check themselves for testicular and prostate cancer. Is this just a giant excuse for men to touch themselves even more?

I know, I know - cancer is horrible - and early detection is so important - but do we have to talk about it all the time?

[happyscooter]

What I have wondered about over the years is how much the research people make. I know they have to pay for buildings and tests and things, but those people have got to be raking in BIG $$$$ every year.

[happyscooter]

We had someone a few years ago that raised money for cancer but the money went for things that actually helped out the patients. Like wigs or medical bills, or cabs to treatment, etc...

[thyme4change]

I'm wondering how much the foundation spends to make all that money. Those events and advertisements aren't free. I know they probably get a lot of charity donations (like donated or reduced cost radio-time, etc.) but sheesh!

[Chocolate Lover]

I'm sick of the ad with the dude talking about giving the woman the "family jewels" for Valentine's Day. I can't wait until Tuesday and he disappears!

[imawino]

I do get weary of the emphasis on finding the cure for breast cancer above and beyond all other cancers combined. I want them to find the cure for breast cancer, but also for Leukemia, colon cancer, prostate cancer and other illnesses like AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis.

[DebMD (banned)]

There was a Koman wing at a hospital where I was training. And whenever my beeper went off to do an ICU consult for those patients my heart sank. Their charts were HUGE to peruse because of all the prior treatments they got...BMT's[bone marrow transplant], a list of prior antibiotics and chemo therapeutics.

There was a 34 year old woman who I placed in the ICU, on a Friday. I'll not likely to forget her with her husband sitting next to her. It was my week-end off, I explained that to her. I told her I'd see her on Monday. When I returned on Monday, I couldn't find her. I asked 'Did she get transferred out[of the ICU]? I was told she coded and died.

[Waffle]

Feb 10, 2011 13:41:13 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

I'm sick of the ad with the dude talking about giving the woman the "family jewels" for Valentine's Day. I can't wait until Tuesday and he disappears!

Absolutely positively agree with you on that one!

[Chocolate Lover]

Thanks Waffle!! ;D

[thyme4change]

I want them to find the cure for breast cancer, but also for Leukemia, colon cancer, prostate cancer

No one wants to talk about colon cancer. Colon's are gross. But Boobs - we can talk about them - all day and all night. Now I'm thinking that balls are jumping on the bandwagon. I odn't know if they are as sexy - we will see.

[DebMD (banned)]

Feb 10, 2011 14:02:40 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I want them to find the cure for breast cancer, but also for Leukemia, colon cancer, prostate cancer

No one wants to talk about colon cancer. Colon's are gross. But Boobs - we can talk about them - all day and all night. Now I'm thinking that balls are jumping on the bandwagon. I odn't know if they are as sexy - we will see.

IMHO- Balls are very sexy.

The thing about testicular cancer is that it occurs in young men and if found and treated despite lung metastasis has a good prognosis.

[imawino]

::I don't know if they are as sexy ::

They're not. Honestly, they are just silly-looking, dangling around down there with nothing to do.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I'm thinking that balls are jumping on the bandwagon

I don't think so. When it hits young men it is particularly aggressive if not caught early, my brother had a friend who recently died from it and he was only 20.

Guys at the age of 20 don't usually see a doctor on a regular basis, let alone feel their nuts for lumps.

Tesicular cancer awareness groups have seen the success of breast cancer awareness groups and want to try to get the word out where guys my brother's age are going to see it.

Whether or not it'll register is debatable. But after talking to my brother about his friend testicular cancer seems a pretty awful way to die and if a package of pasta warning DH to check his nuts gets him to do it I am all for it.

[Deleted]

Feb 10, 2011 14:49:47 GMT -5 imawino said:

::I don't know if they are as sexy ::

They're not. Honestly, they are just silly-looking, dangling around down there with nothing to do.

I'm positive they are there for men to scratch while laying on the couch in their boxers.

[Peace Of Mind]

Feb 10, 2011 13:26:24 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I'm sick of the whole pink ribbon campaign. I know the irony is I will die young of aggressive breast cancer, but I really don't care to buy a bag of pasta with a reminded to feel myself up.

Now I see that they are starting a campaign to encourage men to check themselves for testicular and prostate cancer. Is this just a giant excuse for men to touch themselves even more?

I know, I know - cancer is horrible - and early detection is so important - but do we have to talk about it all the time?

You're young?

[thyme4change]

If I died, it would be a young death - but no - I'm middle-aged.

[Peace Of Mind]

Feb 10, 2011 14:01:26 GMT -5 Waffle said:

Feb 10, 2011 13:41:13 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

I'm sick of the ad with the dude talking about giving the woman the "family jewels" for Valentine's Day. I can't wait until Tuesday and he disappears!

Absolutely positively agree with you on that one!

LMAO!! We were eating dinner and I about choked when that commercial came on. I looked at DH and said "Yeah. No." He said he'll surprise me on another day. LOL!!

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Haven't seen that commerical. I suppose it can't be any worse than the Extenz commericals with "Bob" or the Trojan mime condom commerical.

Was it just me or was the mime putting the condom on backwards?

[DebMD (banned)]

''Trojans', You can't wait to get it on.' ;D

[thyme4change]

Was it just me or was the mime putting the condom on backwards?

Clearly I am watching the wrong television shows.

[The J]

Feb 10, 2011 14:59:15 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Haven't seen that commerical. I suppose it can't be any worse than the Extenz commericals with "Bob" or the Trojan mime condom commerical.

Was it just me or was the mime putting the condom on backwards?

He's a mime. How's he supposed to know how to put on a condom? It's a profession you enter into for the ridicule and inability to get laid. No one wants to sleep with a mime.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

It's a profession you enter into for the ridicule and inability to get laid. No one wants to sleep with a mime.

Touche. I was explaining the theatre hierarchy to DH and at the bottom was "mime".

[DebMD (banned)]

Feb 10, 2011 15:09:20 GMT -5 The J said:

Feb 10, 2011 14:59:15 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Haven't seen that commerical. I suppose it can't be any worse than the Extenz commericals with "Bob" or the Trojan mime condom commerical.

Was it just me or was the mime putting the condom on backwards?

He's a mime. How's he supposed to know how to put on a condom? It's a profession you enter into for the ridicule and inability to get laid. No one wants to sleep with a mime.

Dunno I've seen some pretty ugly hook ups that manage to get laid. ...

[Miss Tequila]

Feb 10, 2011 15:17:39 GMT -5 DebMD (banned) said:

Feb 10, 2011 15:09:20 GMT -5 The J said:

He's a mime. How's he supposed to know how to put on a condom? It's a profession you enter into for the ridicule and inability to get laid. No one wants to sleep with a mime.

Dunno I've seen some pretty ugly hook ups that manage to get laid. ...

That just means the girl had way too much tequila...not that I have any personal knowledge of that

[NancysSummerSip]

OK, I'm home now, and having my second bowl of soup, thanks to Dr. MoneyJenny's note.

We had the annual Race for the Cure here two weeks ago (that was what gave me the idea for the EE store - SO MUCH pink ribbon stuff!)

Nancy Komen Brinker, Susan Komen's sister, lives in this area, so the race and the cause are huge here. The foundation actually does very well in terms of how much goes towards local chapters (the majority of money raised local stays local), and they get a four-star rating on Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/).

However, they have come under fire for siccing their lawyers on small fundraisers whom they feel "misappropriate" the Race for the Cure name in the name of raising money. Mind you, the money is still going to the organization. The organization has tradmarked some 200 versions of the Race for the Cure name, and will sue to make you stop using it, no matter how small you are.

NBC News did a piece on this:
www.watchfreeguide.com/watch-nbc-nightly-news-with-brian-williams-race-for-the-cure-brand-battle-courts-controversy-online/

[The J]

Feb 10, 2011 15:17:39 GMT -5 DebMD (banned) said:

Dunno I've seen some pretty ugly hook ups that manage to get laid. ...

BIG difference between ugly and mime.

[thyme4change]

the majority of money raised local stays local

What does the local money do? Is there local research going on?

I guess I always thought "Race for the Cure" was raising funds to cure, not treat, cancer. Not that helping out current cancer patients with whatever (transportation, meals, medical bills, whatever) isn't noble - it is just misleading to do a fundraiser implying you are raising money for research for a future cure, when really you are just supporting current treatment. That is more like Race for Helping out the sisterhood of cancer patients. Not as catchy.

[Malarky]

Maybe they could put testicular cancer reminders on condom wrappers. "Check out the boys while you're suiting up?"

[DebMD (banned)]

Feb 10, 2011 15:28:41 GMT -5 The J said:

Feb 10, 2011 15:17:39 GMT -5 DebMD (banned) said:

Dunno I've seen some pretty ugly hook ups that manage to get laid. ...

BIG difference between ugly and mime.

Both are undesirable- so the 'difference' is the same.

Jus' sayin'.

[NancysSummerSip]

The money is used both ways - on the local level, it subsidizes mammograms, surgery, drugs and education programs for women who cannot afford the treatment. Hospitals that start mammogram-on-wheels programs (the buses look like the bloodmobile buses) often get their funding from Komen.

And the money also helps those in the midst of the battle, by getting the connected with other sources of help for other needs, like food. Komen does not supply food or food vouchers, for example, but they do work with other agencies that can assist in that.