curing the economy by curing cancer

A while ago I saw interesting info by The National Bureau of Economic Research - 
" The Value of Health and Longevity" by Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel.

If we lower cancer deaths by only 1% we will bring 500 Billion Dollars into the economy.
If we cure cancer it would be 50 Trillion dollars!!!

Just imagine curing the economic crisis by stopping so much human suffering and helping so many people. What a concept...

But as we all Know you have to spend money to make money. Without all of us chipping in the necessary research will not be possible.

If 15,000,000 people (5% of the american population) would give just 1 penny a month it would amount to 1.5 million dollars or 1776 miles of pennies, and pay for one round of research.

Thank you for your time, have wonderful holidays.

Please check www.penniesinaction.org and I am looking forward to your comments.

We need to stop the suffering caused by cancer

As Christmas is upon us I have been upset about the young people I knew that have died of cancer in in the last few weeks.
Please check out www.penniesinaction.org and please visit our blog and let us know what your thoughts are.

This affects all of us and we need to stick together to win this race. Last week they mentioned on the news that by the year 2012 cancer will be the #1 killer worldwide and there will be twice as many cases globally as there are today. That is only 4 years away!!!

JFK said in 1961 we will have a man on the moon in the next ten years and we beat that time.

We have no time to waste to get into this race. Lets ALL race TOGETHER to win this one.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and I am looking forward to hearing from you.