@vancouverislandhiker, I also wanted to mention that it is still October and you are likely seeing the results of pink washing. There is a significant increase in advertising - some legit, others less so - in support of breast cancer because October is breast cancer awareness month (and for liver cancer by the way).
Here's a listing of all the awareness months https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/awareness-months/
September is traditionally prostate cancer awareness month, however, you may see more evidence of prostate cancer research awareness in November because of Movember.
Movember started in Australia and has since moved around the world to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues, starting with prostate cancer and expanding to men's mental health, testicular cancer and more.
Here's more information:
Australia https://au.movember.com/
Canada https://ca.movember.com/
USA https://us.movember.com/
All countries https://www.movember.com/?reset=1
This might be a place to find out how you can help change the paradigm.
Thank you for the hyperlinks. I am currently courting a few corporations and hopefully we'll get a substantial amount of money for cancer research through them( fingers crossed) . One Charter Bank is interested in creating some sort of scale of funding gifts/donations between the top 10 most frequent type of cancers diagnosed in Canada. I leave it up to them to decide on how they want to allocate the money, but I certainly advocate for the prostate cancer people the best I can in speaking to them. The Bank told me that donation money is very competitive , and they cant give to every organization, but Cancer groups is a favourite of theirs ! I simply tell them that more men die of prostate cancer each year than people die of breast cancer each year, and encourage them to look into the issues of Freq. versus Mortality and other ratio's too . I make sure to say "every Cancer patient deserves research dollars and fairness" ...then I leave it with them . With more funding and awareness we can take that role of this investigation to a new level. We can't forget about the c- rectal cancer, or various other types of cancers, im sure you agree. They are all hideous, hence my involvement since an early age in raising money for cancer awareness and expansion of research in various other diseases besides and beyond cancer. However, one glaring vacuous hole is the amount of funding that prostate cancer gets in comparison to the mortality rates, and other cancers and other. One positive point here is that one of the cities close by that I ask for donations from, gave all of their donations to the breast cancer foundation, I congratulated them for that and insured them that every taxpayers dollar would be well spent there. I encouraged them to give a little bit out of that am to Prostate cancer and maybe even colon cancer research and other cancers next year. When we look at breast cancer and prostate cancer. They are both glandular cancers. Talking to the researchers, there are a group of researchers that say one will benefit the other in some ways as both are glandular in nature. Therefore, some scientists believe that these cancer types that develop in glands are/could be interchangeable, in some aspects.