Why does prostate cancer only get 2-5% of funding breast cancer gets?

@chippydoo Its not anger , you read the situation totally wrong . Its grave concern for our boys in society . You should try being informed and concerned . Yet you feel it appropriate to make a joke out of men dying . God have Mercy on your soul . Not what responsible people do . Quite evil actually .

@vancouverislandhiker I have no idea what you are talking about. Save your self righteous name calling for someone you actually know.

@dpayton e was making fun at the lack of funding and as a consequence , mens deaths . I dont find it too funny at all . Obviously your family has not been touched by the disease that plagues men. Cancer is NEVER a laughing matter . yoru laughing at the sick? I dont understand the human fabric of cruelty .

@vancouverislandhiker
Sir, I lost my dad to colon cancer so I’m acutely aware. You missed the “lol” at the end of his statement about ringing the bell. My comment has nothing to due about the funding or lack there of. I’m sorry you took it the wrong way

@chippydoo I know it's a joke — and hitting the bell hard is a good outlet for your anger 🙂 — but I'm not sure I get it. People ring the bell after finishing multiple rounds chemo or radiation for any type of cancer. It's not as if they invite people to ring it after 20 rounds of radiation for breast cancer, but not after 20 rounds of radiation for prostate cancer.

I've never heard of ringing a bell after surgery (whether it's a mastectomy, lumpectomy, or RALP), but I agree that some way to celebrate getting through it would be a nice idea.

In any case, the main point is that research for breast cancer and research for prostate cancer are both very well funded, and we've seen huge advances in treatment for both over the past few years.

People with rarer cancers are in a tougher situation: they don't have tens of millions of people wearing pink ribbons in October or growing mustaches in November to draw public attention to their disease and keep it at the front of the line for research grants.

All cancer sucks, but with prostate cancer, we're luckier than most: consider how many people here in the forum (including me) have stage 4 prostate cancer but are able to keep going almost indefinitely because of new medications and treatment strategies that have come out in just the past few years.

That's one problem with discussing PC. The emotional side is not talked about enough & tensions can get high when talking about a disease we all hate. Jokes can be misinterpreted, when in fact we're all just on edge, waiting for more bad news.

I've seen the bell-ringing on TV.
I never got no bell. (sulks)

@northoftheborder Not surgery. My point is the facility I had my radiation at had a bell outside of the Rad room. I saw many ring it and at the most one rad tech, if one showed up at all, to celebrate with them. Guess I fell flat on this on. What I didn't do is disparage my fellow rad warriors. Yeah I hated it, and they treated us like meat, and didn't meet my medical needs during the process. Fired my radiologist at the end.

@peterj116 Maybe not everyone has it? I didn't ring a bell after my five rounds of post-op radiation to my spine (probably because I was a paraplegic in-patient be wheeled in from my hospital room upstairs), but I was offered the bell after 20 rounds of radiation to my prostate six months later (at a different facility, with no in-patient beds).

@chippydoo I'm sorry to hear that. I've been well cared for through all my cancer treatments, but it's just luck of the draw: in the forum, we've occasionally heard from patients at cancer centres elsewhere in Canada who've had less-positive experiences.

FWIW, I was offered the bell after I told the guy at the front desk that I'd had my last session. He didn't have any way of knowing otherwise.