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When do you get assigned an oncologist?
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Protate Cancer in Canada gets only 2-3 % of the funding breast cancer does in Canada ....despite PC killing more people ! Got to love Canada ! Land of the Woke even in research.
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Yes, I agree, the fundraising gap is frustrating.
It long predates any tired "woke" stereotype. I think it's more because of the ageist misconception that prostate cancer is a slow-moving "old man's disease" that people usually *with* instead of dying *of,* while breast cancer often hits women as young as their 20s or 30s. Also, it took a lot longer for PCa fundraising to mobilise with events like Movember; breast-cancer fundraising has a head start of decades on us.
That said, the two cancer families have a lot in common (like hormone-sensitivity and a strong attraction to bone metastases), so I imagine there's some cross-pollination in the two research communities.