Money Can Save Lives

            According to American Cancer Society, more than one in every three people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. While there is no known cure for cancer, there are many treatment options that are known to help put cancer into remission.

            Research for these treatments, and to help try to find a cure, has been funded by organizations like the American Cancer Society. ACS, or American Cancer Society, has help to fund every research breakthrough for cancer since 1946. Not only do they fund research, their mission involves much more than that. They make this mission clear by stating:

“The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service”

Very little of their money comes from government funding. The great majority comes in as donations from the public. The money they raise not only goes towards fighting cancer, but also taking care of cancer patients and making them comfortable. They offer free rides for patients to their treatments. The American Cancer Society also runs Hope Lodges, which give patients and their caregivers a place to stay for free if they need to travel to another city for treatment.

Without organizations like the American Cancer Society, many people that get diagnosed with cancer wouldn’t have money for treatments, ways to get to these treatments, or a place to stay when their treatment centers are not close to home. Not only would these patients not have help with situations like these, the research to find these treatments never could have been funded.

Since many of these organizations are funded mostly through donations, without people in the public giving money they would not be able to exist. These organizations help to save lives, or at least give people more time to live. ACS states that two in every three people that are diagnosed live for an average of 5 more years, partially thanks to them and their services. Without donations, this would not be possible.

The more money donated, helps more people be helped and funds more research to can be done. If every one just donated a some money, even if it’s not much, more people could be helped. Who would not want to help someone who is suffering from a terrible disease like cancer? Every little bit helps.