Bottle Caps For Cancer Treatment

Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments.

Bottle caps for cancer treatment.

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. One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps. My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough.

It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations. 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. The claims in the message are untrue. Counselor rocio portales and her family found out about a hospital in mexico that provides chemotherapy in exchange of bottle caps.

The email which began. The american cancer society. For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer. The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other.

Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene. This email claims that a large number of bottle caps some say 1 000 others 1 500 or even 10 000 can be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a patient in need. If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed. I live in shelby north carolina.

After extensive research the american cancer society has concluded that the plastic bottle caps for chemo program is a hoax. If so please let me know. Bottle caps cannot be exchanged for free chemotherapy. She must have been doing a good job because she had over 5 00.

Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free. When this chain message caught on especially in the regions of virginia and west virginia large corporations like walmart got involved in the bottle cap raising efforts. Does anyone else know anything about this. Funds raised by the charity go toward granting wishes helping parents and paying for medical treatment entirely from the donation of plastic bottle tops.

My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said.