How Do You Feel About Little Money Being Spent on Prostate Cancer Research?
Breast cancer research receives 50 times the amount of money that prostate cancer research receives.
40,000 women die per year because of breast cancer. Yet, 27,000 men die from prostate cancer.
Supposedly, dads, sons, and husbands are important to women.
How do you feel about the way-out-of-proportion amount of money that breast cancer resereach receives even though your dads and sons are just as much at risk of dying from prostate cancer?
Do you give money to breast cancer research while giving little to prostate cancer?
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I didn’t realize there was such a big difference, wow. I never see affiliations collecting for prostate cancer research. So…next question is, what do we do about it?
Early testing is the key to prostate cancer.
It’s that simple.
Prostate cancer is highly treatable in its early stages.
This goes for testicular cancer as well.
This isn’t so with breast cancer.
However, heart disease is still the #1 killer!
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seeing as i am a woman i think that it should be equal. woman and men are equal and prostate cancer is on the rise.
I lost my Mother to ovarian cancer, yet I almost never hear a word about it anywhere. The blood test for prostate is covered by insurance, but the blood test for ovarian cancer is not. How is THAT fair?
Sarahsmama is right, but the incidence is lower in ovarian cancer so it goes unnoticed. It is far more deadly of the 20,000 women that were diagnosed in 2006 15,000 died, that is 75%. Of the 200,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer, 30,000 died (15%). Similarly 200,000 women were diagnosed in 2006 and 40,000 died (20%).
Breast cancer 5 year survival rate, caught at stage 2, is about ~86%. The survival rate for prostate cancer is ~94%.
The most common cause of cancer death amongst men and women is lung cancer.
The most common cause of death amongst men and women is heart disease.
Do we spend too much money on breast cancer, its debatable. Do we focus on that too much as a primary cause of death amongst women, definitely.
It is clear that our first priority should be heart disease. Second cancer, starting with lung, and then move on to the rest.