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How to increase prostate cancer awareness & funding?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 10, 2025 | Replies (95)Comment receiving replies
Actually, it's not about how much money is spent - it's awareness.
Everyone knows about checking for lumps in a breast, but I'd never heard of PSA until it was a problem.
And all most guys know about prostate tests is a finger where they don't want it. So they avoid it.
All we want is a simple message of "Go get checked. It's just a blood test".
We don't even get that.
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@peterj116 Agreed: awareness is important.
A generation or two ago, the public knew about prostate cancer screening mainly from the old comedy gag of a doctor snapping on a rubber glove and telling the patient to bend over. 😕
So regular prostate-cancer screening was well known enough in popular culture even back in the 1960s to get a laugh, but considered an unpleasant discussion topic except as the punchline of a raunchy joke.
I think we've made a lot of progress since then. Men are learning that it's ok to pay attention to and talk seriously about our bodies, just like women do about theirs.