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Confusing Messaging about Prostate Cancer
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Climber - you hit the nail on the head !!! Prostate cancer kills MUCH more men than people with breast cancer in North America ( NA ) each year ....BUT GETS ONLY 2-5% OF THE FUNDING BREAST CANCER GETS ! PC is very serious , as more people die from it than breast cancer . There is a HUGE GENDER BIAS for funding and social networks . It goes like this ..."men can deal with it , but breast cancer patients need research and care " . It is so unfair how little money PC gets in comparison to Breast Cancer ! YET , more men die of PC . We have to turn this around . I have started talks with my MLA and MP in Canada . They are even shocked at the low funding !
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This certainly doesn't cover all research funding, and it is in US, not Canada, but in 2022 the National Cancer Institute gave $580 million in grants for breast cancer research, and $280 million for prostate. That ratio has been steady for years:
https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/data/research-funding
OTOH, There are more new breast cases /year (43,000 breast/34,000), yet more prostate deaths (30,000 prostate/27,000).
https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2021.html
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Right on, Brother! Even the penny pinching insurance companies with pay for a breast augmentation and nipple enhancement right at the time of mastectomy.
Do we even have a freakin lapel ribbon or a ‘Walk’ for prostate cancer? Oh I forgot - most men will die WITH prostate cancer before they die FROM it…..THAT slogan has gotta GO!!!