I am all for cancer research - friends and family and suffered and died from it. However, what is the goal and just how is being spent? How much are the administrative costs taken out before reaching the researchers?
This article is from 2009, but the wife of the Redskins’ owner was diagnosed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/sports/football/26snyder.html?_r=0
But each October, Tanya has stood outside FedEx Field handing out pink ribbons as fans arrived for a Redskins game, part of Think Pink!, the campaign she and the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority started in 1999 to raise breast cancer awareness. At the time, the Redskins were the only N.F.L. team to participate. At least 20 teams now take part, and one of the Snyders two daughters nudges pink ribbons onto reluctant men by telling them, Real men wear pink.