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Fourteen cents are devoted to Hope Lodges, which provide cancer victims and their families free shelter while they receive treatment away from home...
...spending money on the maintenance of buildings, Caldwell argues, instead of supporting research. If these buildings house sick cancer patients and their supportive but struggling families, then we say keep...
Perhaps the most hurtful claim that the writer levels, though, is that of insincerity. There are literally millions of volunteers like us that form the heart of ACS, all of whom have been touched by cancer in one way or another. Ask any one of the 1,100 students that gathered a couple weeks ago for the Relay for Life at Gordon Track to raise over $150,000. They will tell you their own stories about how they were motivated by the tragic illnesses of their parents, siblings, and friends...
Caldwell’s op-ed is an outrage because it uses misinformation and disingenuous innuendo to discourage people from donating to a worthwhile cause. We invite Caldwell to participate in Relay for Life next April so that she can cheer the dozens of cancer survivors that take the first lap of our Relay and so that she can join in the luminaria ceremony in which participants decorate glowing bags in memory of loved ones lost to cancer. Caldwell calls this “razzle dazzle” and needless “fun.” We call...
Hanzich is co-director of Harvard Relay for Life. DeSilva is president of the Harvard Cancer Society. Rosenthal is director of University Health Services and Oliver professor of hygiene...