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Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThis October, as Americans mark another Breast Cancer Awareness month, many organizations and advocates are looking for ways to support the cause.
Americans give billions of dollars to charitable operations every year, but sadly not all of the recipients are legitimate. On Tuesday, charges were filed against 4 cancer charities for allegedly ...
Often these photos become viral, so it becomes close to impossible to take them down. Since Facebook has been slow to address the problem efficiently (relying on user takedown requests and reports only), several scam- and hoax-combatting websites have worked together to raise the awareness of social media providers regarding this issue.
The Reynolds cancer charities refer to the four "sham charities": the Cancer Fund of America, Inc. (CFA), Cancer Support Services Inc. (CSS), Children's Cancer Fund of America Inc. (CCFOA), and The Breast Cancer Society Inc. (BCS) that began operations in 1984 and were shut down in 2016. [1]
The charity was founded 1911 [4] as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, by Douglas Macmillan following the death of his father from the disease. In 1924, the name was changed to the National Society for Cancer Relief, which it retained until 1989 when it was changed to Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund, later changed again to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
SANDUSKY, Mich. (AP) - A woman who for years claimed she had end-stage cancer pleaded no contest Monday to fraud in a scheme that had brought her widespread sympathy and financial support in small ...
Her social media posts have been quoted to allege she had "countless times helped others" to forgo conventional medical treatment for cancer and to treat themselves "naturally", as well as "leading them down natural therapy for everything from fertility, depression, bone damage and other types of cancer".
In 2008 or 2009, Kirilow discovered a lump in her breast. The lump was benign and was successfully removed but Kirilow began telling people it was malignant. [5] According to the Toronto Sun, psychotherapist Marc Feldman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama, suggested the kind of lies Kirilow told are often a sign an individual is manifesting Münchausen Syndrome by internet.