Breast cancer appeal

PaulStat · 8 Mar 2006 at 12:58

Click away folks... blurb:

A favour to ask for Breast Cancer
Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having
trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their
quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged
woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on
"donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the
number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com

kitten_caboodle · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:16

done.

Will be emailing it to all my friends too.

Borris · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:29

I'm afraid that I'm not going to - The site is US based, and I'm not convinced by the efficacy of mammography as a preventative measure.

Cancer Research UK is where my money goes.

Greenlizard0 · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:42

Borris said:
I'm afraid that I'm not going to - The site is US based, and I'm not convinced by the efficacy of mammography as a preventative measure.

Cancer Research UK is where my money goes.

It's not a preventative measure, it's a scan to check whether you have it or not?

Cuchulain · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:44

greenlizard0 said:
It's not a preventative measure, it's a scan to check whether you have it or not?

Yes, but funding a mammogram is not going to aid them in getting any nearer to a cure, donating to Cancer Research (hopefully) is.

Borris · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:45

greenlizard0 said:
It's not a preventative measure, it's a scan to check whether you have it or not?

A poor choice of words on my behalf - It is indeed a scan, promoted as being beneficial through early detection.

agw_01 · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:47

Cuchulain said:
Yes, but funding a mammogram is not going to aid them in getting any nearer to a cure, donating to Cancer Research (hopefully) is.

It's a few clicks of the mouse, it's not going to cost you anything.

Borris · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:49

agw_01 said:
It's a few clicks of the mouse, it's not going to cost you anything.

But false-positive mammogrammes can prove very dangerous.

Just because something looks like a good thing, it doesn't mean that it always is.

There are also risks associated with cumulative mammography.

Whilst it may cost you nothing, it may cost the health of one of the recipients.

Cuchulain · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:51

agw_01 said:
It's a few clicks of the mouse, it's not going to cost you anything.

I don't recall saying it would, or even saying that I wasn't going to click it but the point remains, it does nothing for UK breast cancer sufferers, it's from a junk email and it's not actually helping to research a remedy.

kitten_caboodle · 8 Mar 2006 at 14:35

Well my grandmothers cancer was detected by mammogram and without it she wouldn't be with us now. I also have several family members in the US.

So I'll be clicking and I'll keep doing so.