Counselor rocio portales and her family found out about a hospital in mexico that provides chemotherapy in exchange of bottle caps.
Bottle caps for cancer treatment.
After extensive research the american cancer society has concluded that the plastic bottle caps for chemo program is a hoax.
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.
Bottle caps cannot be exchanged for free chemotherapy.
If so please let me know.
Hoax collect bottle caps for free cancer chemotherapy treatment outline.
The american cancer society.
The claims in the message are untrue.
The email which began.
One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps.
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 has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough.
I live in shelby north carolina.
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.
Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free.
Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments.
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.
This so broke my heart and inspired me at the same time.
The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other.
Does anyone else know anything about this.
My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said.
If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed.
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.
She must have been doing a good job because she had over 5 00.
It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations.
Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene.