I don't understand why a lot of people consider breast cancer of higher importance than prostate cancer. A lot of scientific research done is spent on breast cancer, girls are being immunised in high schools in the uk to protect them from cancer, whereas boys get nothing.
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Breast cancer awareness is not coming from the medical community . . it is coming from the private, political, and business sector . . many years ago businesses realized that it is women who buy the most products . . who are the ones that do the overwhelming amount of shopping . . this idea was promoted by a business women by the name of Evelyn Lauder who owned Estee Lauder cosmetics . . she had breast cancer. She wanted to get all businesses involved in breast cancer awareness and was the one who established the PINK ribbon and all the pink products that followed . . other breast cancer foundations and businesses followed her lead and began using the pink ribbon to symbolize the disease. Breast cancer awareness came about due to the overwhelming support by businesses who knew a good marketing tool when they saw one . . plus they figured it would give them some much needed favor points to support women (their number one client) .. plus I suppose some of them also thought it might be the 'right' thing to do. It has been one of the most successful marketing of a disease ever . . but this in no way should distract from the fact that children, adolescents, and men can all get cancer and die from it too . . there just is less interest in the business world to market to these demographics (kids don't buy things and men let their women buy things). So it isn't that the majority of people believe that breast cancer is more important or that anyone in the medical field thinks its more important . . its just that businesses have decided that supporting women with breast cancer and using pink is a better marketing tool.
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There may be more advertizing for breast cancer, but I am not aware of anyone who is not aware of either cancer nor do I know of anyone who believes one is more important than the other. Breast cancer patients do require immediate treatment which is not always the case with prostate cancer. Also, men get breast cancer too. There is no vaccine for cancer nor is there anything to protect anyone from getting it. If you are referring to the HPV vaccine males get HPV related cancers too. The money spent on treatment is spent on everyone with cancer. I don’t know the numbers, but it is very likely more is spent on men as they tend to get cancer more than women.
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