Tag: Susan G. Komen

Komen Foundation Feeling The Backlash From Withdrawing Planned Parenthood Funding

As the Susan B. Komen Foundation pulls $700,000 of donations from Planned Parenthood there is backlash from around the country.

Mayor Bloomberg of New York has donated $250,000 of his own money to the organization.

Komen for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker stands by the Planned Parenthood decision.

The reason the group has given is that newly adopted rules prevented Komen grants to groups under investigation by law enforcement.

Planned Parenthood is being investigated by Republican Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns in Congress.

“We will never bow to political pressure. We will always stand firm in our goal to end breast cancer forever. We will never turn our backs on the women who need us the most,” she said in the video. “The scurrilous accusations being hurled at this organization are profoundly hurtful to so many of us who have put our heart and soul and lives into this organization.”

Long-term tamoxifen therapy increases breast cancer survival

Cancer research has come a long way last 5 years.

Thanks to organizations like the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation once considered experimental drugs like tamoxifen are making headway toward a cure.

The findings showed that for every hundred women with breast cancer who completed a full five-year course of tamoxifen, the cancer came back in around six fewer women, compared to those who only took the drug for two years.
This latest British study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on Monday, also found that an added benefit of taking tamoxifen for five years was that it reduced the risk of developing or dying from heart disease.

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