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PoisedWriter · 04/03/2025 09:54

I am sick to back teeth of seeing cancer ads, " Together we can find a cure", seriously!! How stupid are folk, this alleged charity has been asking for donations ( and receiving) since 1971, 53 years!! Not a 1 cure in 53 years, the CEO of the charity buys a brand new motor every 12 months, its all about the donations.!! Why are folk still funding this, it's the world's richest charity with 0 ZERO results. There will never be a cure, ever. Stop funding scrounging alleged charities. Wake up people!!

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LittleRedRidingHoody · 04/03/2025 10:00

Hmmmm I think if we take that mindset though we never find a cure for anything.

Charity CEOs need to be well paid. No one is going to spend decades learning to run companies well to then live on a low salary. Not sure how much the one you're referring to is, but most CEOs bring far more to the charity then they take, and are massively unpaid compared to similar private companies (obviously this is fair enough, but continuing to flame them is not on IMO, and is why I'd never take a pay cut into the charity sector even if I wanted to!)

Nooa · 04/03/2025 10:09

You have a reasonable point on how much some charities pay some staff (depends on the charity though).
But the rest is a bit wacky. Nobody has found a 'cure' for all cancers yet, it's true. So should we not try?

I think the worse ones are the animal ones... "Rufus just wants to be loved this Christmas"... No. Rufus does not even know what love is. Rufus is a donkey. Why can't they just say, "Rufus just wants a dry stable and some well fermented silage this year, and doesn't give two shits about Christmas"?

wherearemypastnames · 04/03/2025 10:10

Zero results ?

Really ?

So a greater chance of recovery though better treatment and better detection is nothing to you?

wherearemypastnames · 04/03/2025 10:11

And isn't it warped that you are happy for some people to be paid well with responsible jobs - bankers, CEO of industries - just not those people whose work is perhaps more valuable to society ?

Hoardasurass · 04/03/2025 10:16

@PoisedWriter they may not have found a cure yet but they have massively improved both treatments and recovery/remission/survival rates and some of the treatments and vaccines/viruses that are going through drug trials right now are real game changers that could be the universal cure that you claim will never exist.
I don't know what's upset you so much but may I suggest taking a time out so you can think more rationally about this subject

Edited for typo

Tallisker · 04/03/2025 10:16

53 years ago my recent breast cancer would have killed me. Now, due to research, diagnosis is better, treatment is better, survival rates are high. The machines they use for diagnosis and treatment are amazing. The training the medical staff need to diagnose and treat cancer is amazing.

00ps · 04/03/2025 10:19

This should be funded by the government, and all cancer doctors/researchers working together. It should not be a charity. No health thing should be a charity, this is a failure of government.

Mrsmouse71 · 04/03/2025 10:23

But they have, my mum died of breast cancer in the 70's, they didn't even try to treat it. Chances are now she'd have survived

JennyElection · 04/03/2025 10:29

I never donate to a charity where the CEO earns more than I do. I encourage everyone to donate to local charities where up to 100% goes to the cause.

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 04/03/2025 10:29

PoisedWriter · 04/03/2025 09:54

I am sick to back teeth of seeing cancer ads, " Together we can find a cure", seriously!! How stupid are folk, this alleged charity has been asking for donations ( and receiving) since 1971, 53 years!! Not a 1 cure in 53 years, the CEO of the charity buys a brand new motor every 12 months, its all about the donations.!! Why are folk still funding this, it's the world's richest charity with 0 ZERO results. There will never be a cure, ever. Stop funding scrounging alleged charities. Wake up people!!

Who pissed on your chips?
You are being goady. I wonder why?

ChocHotolate · 04/03/2025 10:34

Cancer is an umbrella term for many many different diseases. Different tumours grow, replicate and spread differently. Each one needs different research. Advancing knowledge and treatment about one type of cancer affecting one area of the body may not increase knowledge about a different primary tumour in another area of the body

HH4432 · 04/03/2025 10:34

wherearemypastnames · 04/03/2025 10:11

And isn't it warped that you are happy for some people to be paid well with responsible jobs - bankers, CEO of industries - just not those people whose work is perhaps more valuable to society ?

CEOs of banks are not saying they WILL find a cure for anything though - so you are not comparing like for like

@PoisedWriter YANBU - though I do think that cure rates (or prolonged lives) have increased

verycloakanddaggers · 04/03/2025 10:37

00ps · 04/03/2025 10:19

This should be funded by the government, and all cancer doctors/researchers working together. It should not be a charity. No health thing should be a charity, this is a failure of government.

There is also a lot of funding put in by government - treatment and research.

nc0007 · 04/03/2025 10:41

00ps · 04/03/2025 10:19

This should be funded by the government, and all cancer doctors/researchers working together. It should not be a charity. No health thing should be a charity, this is a failure of government.

They do, but it's also strength in numbers.

KimberleyClark · 04/03/2025 10:42

wherearemypastnames · 04/03/2025 10:10

Zero results ?

Really ?

So a greater chance of recovery though better treatment and better detection is nothing to you?

Exactly this. We may not have found a cure that works for everyone, but treatments and survival rates are constantly improving.

Octavia64 · 04/03/2025 10:43

There's a vaccination now that prevents a few cancers.

Cancer isn't one thing.

verycloakanddaggers · 04/03/2025 10:44

I don't understand this thread at all. Absolute conspiracy nonsense.

Cancer treatments are improving all the time, due to the research being done.

Look at childhood leukemia - the survival rates have improved and improved.

I have friends who have had treatment and survived types/stages of cancer that only twenty years ago there would have been no treatment option.

Why would anyone want less research into a disease that so many of us will get?

Maggiethecat · 04/03/2025 10:47

PoisedWriter · 04/03/2025 09:54

I am sick to back teeth of seeing cancer ads, " Together we can find a cure", seriously!! How stupid are folk, this alleged charity has been asking for donations ( and receiving) since 1971, 53 years!! Not a 1 cure in 53 years, the CEO of the charity buys a brand new motor every 12 months, its all about the donations.!! Why are folk still funding this, it's the world's richest charity with 0 ZERO results. There will never be a cure, ever. Stop funding scrounging alleged charities. Wake up people!!

Hope you or yours are never afflicted by the disease then.

stayathomer · 04/03/2025 10:47

Op a cancer charity got my dad night nurses when he was dying. They provided counselling services for him and even art classes through a local hospice. The governments can’t for some reason get health services under control and so charities exist and aren’t going anytime soon. Charities need people being paid money so they can manage insane amounts of staff and resources. This really is a weird rant and also please change the title as I’m assuming others came here about some form of a joke!!!!

nc0007 · 04/03/2025 10:48

To add.
the charities aren’t just about finding a cure.
they provide support to those battling cancer and their loved ones.

i found myself in a very horrible situation when one of my family members ended up in hospital with terminal cancer. Through emotion I found dealing with doctors very tricky but one call to the macmillan nurses and they told me exactly what to ask and who. As well as how to look after them and myself

those nurses need to be paid somehow and my call was free to make, but the support I got would have been worth every penny

Whenalldoneandsaid · 04/03/2025 10:51

My dad got 4 years of extra life thanks to immunotherapy.

Complaining about charity CEO salaries is so short sighted. They are managing multi million pound budgets. Ignoring the Captain's daughter of course.

Kindafreakingouthere · 04/03/2025 11:10

I'm an NHS employee but my post and many others are funded by these charities...some small projects that I work on receive approx. £2million in grant funding over 3-4 years from the charity I'm guessing you are alluding to. I think you're being a bit short sighted and also probably don't fully understand what cancer is...it is not one disease with one cause. There's never going to be a vaccine or equivalent to cure it (although some can help prevent it). The charity itself is not trying to find the cure but they pay for the researchers who work on this day in day out who desperately want to find the next best treatment for their patients.
I do agree that there could be more transparency on what the money is spent on at the top of the chain but that is a drop in the ocean compared to money that is being spent on actual research.

saveforthat · 04/03/2025 11:14

wherearemypastnames · 04/03/2025 10:10

Zero results ?

Really ?

So a greater chance of recovery though better treatment and better detection is nothing to you?

This. I have had cancer twice and would be dead now if my current cancer was diagnosed 10 years ago. Now there is treatment. Look how breast cancer treatment has improved over the last 20 years. We may not have a "cure" yet but we have more effective treatments

ChoccieCornflake · 04/03/2025 11:21

What makes you think the cancer cure rate hasn't massively increased over the years? Hint - it has

KrisAkabusi · 04/03/2025 11:56

JennyElection · 04/03/2025 10:29

I never donate to a charity where the CEO earns more than I do. I encourage everyone to donate to local charities where up to 100% goes to the cause.

Do you think that Jane working part time out of her kitchen is going to be able to cure cancer? Sometimes big problems need big resources. One of the reasons a CEO of a charity can earn a lot more than you do is because he has a lot more responsibility. Budgets of millions, hundreds of staff. It takes time and skill to do this effectively, so of course you pay to attract that talent.