If so please let me know.
Bottle caps for cancer treatment.
My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough.
She must have been doing a good job because she had over 5 00.
Does anyone else know anything about this.
However one member of the ollu faculty and staff has found a way to help provide chemotherapy in exchange for a small item that we dispose of everyday.
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.
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.
If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed.
It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations.
Hoax collect bottle caps for free cancer chemotherapy treatment outline.
After extensive research the american cancer society has concluded that the plastic bottle caps for chemo program is a hoax.
The email which began.
My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said.
For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer.
Funds raised by the charity go toward granting wishes helping parents and paying for medical treatment entirely from the donation of plastic bottle tops.
Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene.
Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free.
The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other.
Counselor rocio portales and her family found out about a hospital in mexico that provides chemotherapy in exchange of bottle caps.
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.
I live in shelby north carolina.
This so broke my heart and inspired me at the same time.
In the past an email was circulated that asked individuals to collect large numbers of bottle caps that would be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a needy patient.
The claims in the message are untrue.
One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps.
