Apple has announced that for the month of October it will be accepting donations through the iTunes Store on behalf of City of Hope in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. City of Hope is a research facility that focuses on prevention and treatment of not only cancer, but many serious diseases such as lymphoma.
The Cupertino company has previously collected donations on behalf of organizations such as the Red Cross following catastrophic events such as typhoons and hurricanes. This is the first time Apple has collected donations for City of Hope or Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
In 2011 Tim Cook announced that all employee donations to charity would be matched by the company. Last year Apple auctioned off a lunch with the executive to support the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The same offer was made again this year.
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I’m not familiar with this charity but the story makes me wonder why, with the hundreds of millions of dollars raised for research, are we treating chronic diseases instead of curing them?
Maybe because curing them isn’t as profitable for the corporations and advocacy groups?
We pretty much wiped out polio but then I guess someone realized the money to be made from “treatment.”
Cancer is not one disease, but over one hundred that have existed for thousands of years. The book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” is a fascinating read and really goes deep into the history of the treatment and research about the disease. This article actually refers to lymphoma as a disease separate from cancer, but it’s really a form of cancer.
The bullshit conspiracy that we could cure it if we wanted to is a personal pet peeve and pretty disrespectful to the people who spend their lives treating and researching it.
Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news, Nick, but either you are incredibly brainwashed, incredibly stupid, incredibly misinformed or incredibly all three together. Cancer is a multi-billion dollar profit industry, “get over it.”
The best breast cancer awareness promotion is to let women know that should they have a breast scan, which is intense X-ray radiation at close proximity to soft tissue, even if they do not have cancer now, in 12 months time they will have.