Re: Bobby Bowden and prostate cancer

[Guest guest]

Bobby Bowden is getting paid to talk about his prostate cancer by several

pharmaceutical companies and other organizations....he would be much more

credible and inspiring if he talked about his prostate cancer without using it

for personal gain.

Darryl

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[Guest guest]

Darryl,

I have to say I don’t get the point

of your post. Where do you draw the line between funding and donations and

personal gain? I don’t have the answer to that.

When we set up the YANA

– You Are Not Alone Now at http://www.yananow.org site, one of the things

we decided was that we would fund the site ourselves so that we were beholden

to no one: so that no one could apply pressure to provide any spun message. Over

time, individuals offered to contribute to the costs of running the site and

printing my booklet which I send free of charge to anyone who wants it. and I

accepted those donations gratefully – I even received a large donation of

$100 from Oppenheimer when he fond I mentioned his lab as an expert

pathologist BUT…….

If one of the large PCa related organizations,

most of which are funded in some way by the pharmaceutical industry was to

offer me a couple of business class tickets to the US plus expenses plus a

small honorarium to be a guest speaker at a meeting (hint,hint), why I might just

be tempted to take that bribeJ We all have our prices – and I have thirteen States to visit

before I clock up a visit to each State in the USA and tick that off my Bucket

List. I don’t know that would be a wicked thing to do – at least I’d

be able to get a message out to some men who might find it helpful.

I don’t know (or really care) how

you fund your Malecare site because it does such a good job – but I’m

guessing part of the income is from the advertisements that run on the site,

many of which are, unsurprisingly, “….pharmaceutical companies and

other organizations…”

Pot and kettle comes to mindJ

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening

Terry

Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.org/StrangePlace/index.html

From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Darryl Mitteldorf

Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2011

1:21 AM

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Subject:

Re: Bobby Bowden and prostate cancer

Bobby

Bowden is getting paid to talk about his prostate cancer by several

pharmaceutical companies and other organizations....he would be much more

credible and inspiring if he talked about his prostate cancer without using it

for personal gain.

Darryl

Sent from my iPad

[Guest guest]

To Terry Heibert

Almost all of Malecare's funding is derived from individual contributions and

much from the inside of my pocket, as well as from the pockets and extraordinary

in kind donations of our volunteer group leaders. Those " ads " you speak of are

helpful, but provide barely a percentage. The amount of pharma money that

Malecare receives is laughably

small compared to that received by the other national profits. Indeed, the

enormity of individual contributions that Malecare runs on is a point of pride.

Second. The point of my comment is that it would be helpful if the

" celebrities " were more forthcoming with their pca stories. Yes, of course they

are people like us, entitled to make their own choices....... choices that are

best made from inside of each of us. Still, our advocacy world would be so very

much stronger if we had more champions--like everyone on this listserv, coming

forward, speaking up, and standing (and living ) strong in our mutual fight

against prostate cancer.

Darryl

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