@dpayton I haven't watched (and won't watch) the video, but please be aware that there are people with political agendas who will exaggerate or misrepresent statistics for their own purposes.
Prostate cancer research is actually one of the best-funded of any cancer (in both Canada and the U.S.), but these people care only about exploiting us and our disease to score political points. We don't matter to them any more than accuracy does.
One indisputable point is that prostate cancer has become one of the very few cancers (along with some types of breast cancer) that's often survivable even at stage 4 now. That's partly a result of pharma companies' interest (lots of patients, so big potential market), and partly a result of the fact that research for both is extremely well funded compared to most other cancers. That's hard to argue with: I was diagnosed with stage 4 in 2021, but because of recent research discoveries, I'm still alive and in full (medically-induced) remission/N.E.D. heading into 2026, something that would have been unlikely 10-15 years ago.
Having cancer's never lucky, but if someone has to have some kind of stage-4 cancer, they're "lucky" if it's prostate cancer, because of all the treatment options we have thanks to decades of well-funded research.
@northoftheborder
Well said, North. It just makes sense if a cancer is as prevalent as prostate is, you'd focus on it and look for ways to prevent or help survive it. I think in general cancer studies have helped a LOT and I hope it continues until we have a cure. Even at G9(4+5) I feel positive about the future. I'm not going to give in and I'm going to be aggressive as heck to fight it.
Love all you guys!!
Doug