Charity soliciting cash donations in WI ranked second worst in nation

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- If you get a call from a charity, asking for donations, FOX6's Contact 6 says you may want to think twice before opening your wallet! A FOX6 viewer alerted Contact 6 to a charity she had never heard of, so Contact 6 did some digging, and found out where some of the donations you make are really going!

Oncologist Chris Chitambar's team is studying the exhausting effects of chemotherapy on women.

"We're trying to understand ways in which it makes one fatigued - women - because a lot of women who receive chemotherapy experience fatigue - extreme fatigue - that lingers well beyond completion of treatment," Chitambar said from his lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Chitambar's team could receive federal money for the study, kick-started by local donations, most coming from a beautiful home in Milwaukee.

For $20, you can tour the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse. The organization has raised close to $5 million since it started in 1988. 70-cents of every dollar goes to the Medical College for breast cancer research.