Komen foundation stops funding breast cancer screenings but continues with archaic animal experiments
For
Immediate Release:
February
2, 2012
Contact:
Kristin
Richards 202-483-7382
Norfolk, Va. - As people react to the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to stop funding controversial breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, PETA is sending the health-care provider a list of cancer charities—including the American Breast Cancer Foundation, Breast Cancer Fund, BreastCancer.org, the Doctor Susan Love Research Foundation, and the Keep A Breast Foundation—that, unlike the Komen foundation, do not fund archaic, painful, and deadly experiments on animals but use modern methods and clinical and epidemiological methods instead.
"The Susan G. Komen Foundation won't fund breast cancer screening, but it will pay to kill animals in archaic and unreliable experiments," says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. "PETA hopes our list will help Planned Parenthood find a partner more dedicated to preventive care and modern, humane research."
In one recent study funded by the Komen foundation, mice had tumor cells injected into their brains. When the mice developed brain tumors, they were killed, and the tumor tissues were implanted into other mice, who had their necks broken and their brains cut out and dissected. Cancer studies on animals are notoriously unreliable. PETA recently reviewed more than 30 years of cancer studies on rodents and found that the vast majority are inadequate or have produced ambiguous, unusable results.
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