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Ehrenreich is critical of mainstream cancer organizations that raise money for research in breast cancer. Discuss two of her concerns.

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Using the two attached files, Ehrenreich's critique of mainstream cancer organizations for research in breast cancer is briefly summarized in terms of a feminist interpretation. 300 words are briefly offered.

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As you correlate why Ehrenreich is highly critical of many mainstream cancer organizations that raise money for research in breast cancer, she strongly alleges that since little has changed in deterring breast cancer death rates since the 1930s, the raising of money for an alleged "cure" (Ehrenreich 44) is a bit counterproductive and misleading in her opinion. In other words, she seems to align these organizations more with hype and drama than actual results overall. When she cites how the Susan G. Komen Foundation, in ...

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