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Why does prostate cancer only get 2-5% of funding breast cancer gets?
Brothers..... Lets face it , both breast cancer and prostate cancer are hideous diseases. And no, I repeat no, prostate cancer is not an old man's disease the same holds true for breast cancer. My question to the forum readers is in North America prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer kills people in North America. Why does it only get 2-5% of the funding . I am bombarded every night on TV or radio about ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and other women's cancers and I have never seen a prostate cancer commercial. This is ridiculous. Sociologically one can conclude that prostate cancer is massively underfunded and that men in North America are generally unappreciated. This has to stop. Talk to your politicians and anybody that will listen. Force their hand for "AT LEAST PARITY ! " ENOUGH !, with this bias ! God Bless ! James on Vancouver Island .
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Right you are. Good points . The digital exam has SO many faults , PSA track and double time is a better method prior to biopsy . Better standard of care. You can only feel 20% of the prostate at the maximum of the digital exam. PSA is much better marker and then you can transgress to the MRI with contrast which gave you a pretty good look at the pelvic bed. Any lesions would show up like my triple 7 on the radar screen. Yes, we have come along way with tech technologies in the healthcare system. I wish Canada would have a proton radiation therapy machines in every major hospital. This is a glaring gap. Also PSMA pet scanners are needed in each hospital as well. Crucial equipment that the USA has and we don't. We pay big bucks for our insurance. We should have these devices. But you're right we have come a long way. We can talk about our bodies now, imagine that. Some Canadians culturally think that men are not all toxic, imagine that. That's real progress in itself. But let's not get an over our skis here , I think the Canadian culture still dictates that men are toxic. That's what I see every second commercial say anyway. The buffoon man trying to do laundry the buffoon man trying to cut the lawn, the buffoon man trying to look after their children. It's really insulting. You don't see this in the Philippines, germany, Hungary, or even Spain. In Canada, it's common. Have a great day, sir. Thank you for your valid points.
You hear people say oh you got the good one. It ain’t so good for me and I imagine all of us. Cancer is a horrible disease that hits a lot of us when we’re at our most vulnerable part of our lives 65 and over.
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1 Reaction@taeguab Yes. This. Or my old favourite when you talk about prostate removal: "That's OK.. you've got another one".
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3 Reactions@peterj116 they thought we have 2 no that’s the cojones. LOL
Ask the Sec. of HHS.
@taeguab We have 2 everything, don't we?
You could be more fairly comparing prostate cancer research dollars to cervical cancer research dollars. But there isn't a competition between cancers. If you want more dollars for your particular cancer, contribute more.
The threat to research--https://www.higheredjobs.com/articles/articleDisplay.cfm?ID=4519
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2 ReactionsHere's a paper on Canadian research funding for site-specific cancers in 2015:
https://crdcn.ca/publication/discrepancies-between-canadian-cancer-research-funding-and-site-specific-cancer-burden/
Best funded: leukemia, prostate, and breast (51.3% of all cancer research funding combined)
Least funded: uterus, pancreas, and ovary (7.8% of all cancer research funding combined)
Worst funded proportional to cancer burdon: lung, uterus, and colorectal
Women would have a legitimate complaint over how seriously underfunded uterine and ovarian cancer research is.