Prostate is diagnosed more than breast cancer. But why isn't there ...

Prostate is diagnosed more than breast cancer. But why isn?t there equal support for prostate cancer ?

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Prostate is diagnosed more than breast cancer. But why isn?t there equal support for prostate cancer ?Breast Cancer out paced prostate cancer research $ 548mill to $ 306 mill according to NCI(National Cancer Institute). Even though there are more diagnoses Prostate Cancer than Breast Cancer by 230,110 new cases to 215,990( www.cancer.org/downloads/MED/Page4.pdf). There fundraisers for breast cancer like the pink ribbon fundraiser which is great but where is the ribbon for prostate cancer ? There are telethons for breast cancer, 10k runs for breast cancer, collection on airline flights for breast cancer. There isn?t equal support for prostate cancer even though prostate is diagnosed more than breast cancer. Why ?Why do we care more about women than men? Does anybody find this disturbing ?

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Because breasts generally get more attention in day-to-day lives than prostates? I?ve met women who don?t even know where the prostate is (can?t say I blame them for not knowing, lacking one, and all). How many guys do you know who don?t know where breasts are?

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I have a theory about this, but I?m not sure many people on here are going to like it. I honestly think it?s just another way to talk about sex and use sex to sell products (i.e. the pink ribbon stuff) without actually mentioning sex. Because, you know, even if the breasts are infected with a cancerous growth, they?re still breasts. And breasts will sell products. It?s better to donate your money or time directly to the organizations that help fund the research and not buy a box of cookies or do a fun-run and hope for the best, IMO.

I know it?s a big stretch to make, and maybe I haven?t given this a whole lot of thought, but that?s one of my theories.

That said, Safeway is raising money right now for prostate cancer research (or at least they are out here in my little corner of the midwest). Every time I?ve been to the grocery store in the past two weeks they?ve asked if I wanted to round my total up to the nearest dollar to help fund prostate cancer research.

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