NBCC has a deadline 2020 project that seeks to end breast cancer by 2020. They are currently fund raising with 2:1 matching, so you triple your gift match with donation until 9/30/2013.
I'm reading up on their progress report:
I like the fact that NBCC put a deadline date for BC. This is unlike other charities that just splashes pink year after year till the founders live to a cushy retirement, and generations of women get marched through the adjuvant BC revenue generation therapy and get decimated by the MBC.
http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020.org/about-the-deadline/progress-reports/2012-progress-report.html
They fund a project called artemis that tries to end breast cancer by preventing metastatic breast cancer(MBC), it's another way of saying they are going to end breast cancer by researching adjuvant BC treatment. They say don't expect silver bullet (for curing MBC).
But I want to see them going out on a leg and putting up a X-prize for actually curing MBC. I want the silver bullet. HIV patients got silver bullets, diabetic patients got silver bullets, malaria folks got the silver bullets, some leukemia folks got the silver bullets. MBC and other cancer folks need to expect silver bullets and ask for the silver bullet (or the silver bullets) and not be distracted by any other shiny toys.
No more new mammograms, MRIs, PETs, and other half-baked detection/prevention mechanisms.
No more expensive drugs by extending MBC survival by 1 month, 3 month, etc.
No more adjuvant repackaging and remarketing of ok/great MBC drug that does not cure MBC and spend billions and 10 years to find out that this adjuvant strategy may not work.
No more quakery.
We have a real chance of getting the cure by 2020. But let's make sure of it.
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