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How to increase prostate cancer awareness & funding?
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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@northoftheborder Nice.
Nothing down here. I think the novelty wore off.
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1 Reaction@peterj116 True — I don't see as many pink ribbons for breast cancer in October any more, either. Maybe the pandemic made some people shift their priorities? 🫤
@northoftheborder That's a point. Everyone's sick of medical warnings.
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1 ReactionThe American Cancer Society’s web site (https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21820) shows cases and deaths data about all cancers.
Thank you for that excellent article! Here is the summary: (good news for us with Prostate CA!)
Female breast cancer mortality peaked in 1989 and has since decreased by 42% through 2021, translating to the avoidance of more than 490,000 deaths. This progress is attributed to earlier diagnosis through mammography screening and increased awareness, coupled with improvements in treatment. Declines in breast cancer mortality have slowed in recent years, from 2% to 3% annually during the 1990s and 2000s to 1% annually from 2013 to 2021 (Table 7), reflecting relatively stable mammography prevalence over the past 2 decades and perhaps increased incidence. Prostate cancer mortality rates were stable from 2013 through 2021 after declining by almost 3%–4% annually since the mid-1990s, likely reflecting the uptick in advanced-stage diagnoses over the past decade (Table 7, Figure 6).114, 115 Prostate cancer mortality has declined by 53% since the peak in 1993 because of earlier detection through widespread screening with the PSA test and advances in treatment.116, 117