I have heard about collecting bottle caps for cancer patients.
Bottle caps for cancer patients.
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Berner has been fielding calls all summer from volunteers inquiring about the mythical program.
The scheme became so widespread the american cancer society issued a statement.
If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed.
I felt that this was an easy way to help patients in need of treatment portales began saving bottle caps two years ago.
Not many nonprofits collect bottle caps.
This so broke my heart and inspired me at the same time.
Does anyone else know anything about this.
For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer.
Collected via e mail october 2008.
If so please let me know.
I got started after a family member mentioned saving the bottle caps after being told about this cause by a family friend who happens to work at the hospital that they are donated to.
I live in shelby north carolina.
Bottle caps for chemo is a hoax.
Kindhearted residents of the orangeburg area have been collecting plastic bottle caps thinking they were helping to pay for chemotherapy treatments for a sick child.
One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps.
The exchange of large amounts of plastic bottle caps to offset treatment costs for cancer patients is a hoax according to amy berner communications director for the west virginia american cancer society.
The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other cash for trash hoaxes that have circulated worldwide for years sources.
When i asked her where she got the money she told me that she was going door to door selling bottle caps to the neighbors so we could go to disneyland.
She must have been doing a good job because she had over 5 00.
My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said.
My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough.
Apparently for every 1 000 caps collected a patient can receive a chemotherapy treatment.
The american cancer society.
Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments.
