Why so much attention and government funding to treat breast cancer as opposed to testicular/prostate cancers?
testicular and prostate cancer are as common in men as breast cancer is in women
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testicular cancer affects mostly young men and breast cancer affects mostly older women. Young men have less political clout than older women. Prostate cancer is near 100% curable in the US if discovered early, so it's a non-issue
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women sob, whine and complain more
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I always wondered that, too.
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Because women squirt out voters...men don't!
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prostate cancer is slow moving and the death rate is lower than breast cancer.
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Women have to get there way, and the government listens to their complaining
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Breast cancer is terrible and so is prostate cancer, it has killed many of my family members and is the sole reason why I do not want to live long enough to get cancer.
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in the UK prostate cancer survival is still less than 50%, but that's because there is no early detection in european countries....rationed care
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Everything is controlled by politics, that is why AIDS has so much money devoted to it, and diseases with more victims get less money. It is the same for breast cancer, which has a big political base, where as, prostate cancer which has more victims has much less support. The attention and money given to different causes don't necessarily relate to their impact on society.
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because men don't complain as much as women about getting rights....
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The guess the breast cancer treatment lobby is doing a better job then the others. If the foundations dealing with testicular and prostate cancer hired the same ad firms and the same lobby firms they would do better as well.
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Because for some reason men still suck up to women even after they got us kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
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Because the dramatic rise of breast cancer is directly linked to abortion, as noted by the insurance industry, and the resultant expenses, if disclosed, would bring down the globalist house of cards. _____ alekanddad - Nice list, but you left out the number one correlative factor - Women who have had abortions . . . especially in their first pregnancy. The best preventative measure for breast cancer is to carry your child to term and breast feed the child . Both my grandmothers had breast cancer in their 60's, and both survived long enough to die of old age-related causes in their 90's.
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Because men and women can get breast cancer. Only men can get testicular or prostate cancer http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/breastcancer/a/breastcancfacts.htm says: "One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime." "Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk." "Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer." "Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer death in women 55 to 74." http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/806-316a.pdf says: "Out of every one hundred cases of breast cancer, one will occur in a man" Also there are many risk factors for breast cancer Risk factors: • being a woman • getting older • having an inherited mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 breast cancer gene • lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) • a personal history of breast or ovarian cancer • a family history of breast, ovarian or prostate cancer • having high breast density on a mammogram • having a previous biopsy showing atypical hyperplasia • starting menopause after age 55 • never having children • having your first child after age 35 • radiation exposure, frequent X-rays in youth • high bone density • being overweight after menopause or gaining weight as an adult • currently or recently using estrogen or estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from: http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/806-316a.pdf http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_male_breast_cancer_28.asp says: "Breast cancer occurs mainly in women, but men can get it, too. Many people do not realize that men have breast tissue and that they can develop breast cancer." Some facts from http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/breastscreen/breastcancer.html say; "In 2006 there were 45,508 new registrations of breast cancer in women in England, and 314 in men" "One in 9 women will develop breast cancer at some time in their life. The estimated risk of developing it for each of the other age groups has been calculated as:" * Up to age 25, 1 in 15,000 * Up to age 30, 1 in 1,900 * Up to age 40, 1 in 200 * Up to age 50, 1 in 50 * Up to age 60, 1 in 23 * Up to age 70, 1 in 15 * Up to age 80, 1 in 11 * Up to age 85, 1 in 10 It also says in England alone "11,990 women and 92 men died from breast cancer in 2007" To sum up it is because anyone can get breast cancer, it's just as, if not more, deadly that testicular/prostate cancer, and so many people can get it due to all the risk factors.
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Politics, politics, politics. Women are more plausible victims to the press. And frankly, the breasts of women are more pleasant to think about than the prostates and testicles of men. Other posters here have mentioned that prostate cancer is 100% curable if detected early, thus "a non-issue," but as a member of a family from a part of the country with the world's highest per capita death rate from prostate cancer I have to add that detection of prostate cancer early enough to effect a cure without surgery that causes impotence while often failing to remove ALL of the cancer is a relatively rare event. Catching prostate cancer early enough to effect a cure before the cancer spreads and kills the patient depends on a positive prostate-specific antigen test (one of those "needless tests" President Obama and his henchmen in Congress want us to stop having). If the patient suffers physical pain, urinary incontinence, nocturnal urination or enlarged prostate and it turns out to be prostate cancer, the outlook is very poor - death usually follows in a few years. But it's much harder to make a hearts-and-flowers documentary about prostate cancer than it is to make one about breast cancer. Men aren't supposed to emote in photogenic ways; women are. Men are expected to just man up, go home and die. And part of it is that breast cancer is more treatable than testicular cancer - more Big Pharma money is out there promoting therapies for breast cancer than prostate and testicular cancers.
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Because everyone is tired of paying attention to men's wieners 24/7. It's not the center of the universe. Just kidding... I'm not sure. You are right and it's an interesting point. We don't have penile appreciation month and it is a serious illness.
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