Which one is worse and why doesn't prostate cancer receive more awareness??
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Both cancers are usually successfully treated if caught early; however, both can be deadly if detection is caught too late. Breast cancer is the number one killer for women and one in eight get it. Prostate cancer kills men but not as many as it does women. In general a man needs a colonoscopy at age 50, probably sooner if there is any evidence of that type of cancer in his family history. Breast cancer is usually the cancer women get in their 40's or 50's. But I know if it were me I would do self examinations at 25 to be safe. I had a colonoscopy at 50 and will get one every ten years. The only bad thing about getting one is what you need to drink before it, otherwise it is ok. My wife just battled breast cancer and she needs to get a colonoscopy every five years. It is our bodies that get cancer, so each sex needs to protect themselves accordingly. So do your checks and get your examinations. Every dollar raised for cancer awareness is a dollar spent to fight cancer in general so I don't care to which cancer gets the money, getting one cured could help cure the others.
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They both can be deadly, but from what I've heard prostate cancer in most cases progresses very slowly and usually affects elderly men. My grandpa had it, and his doctors told him not to bother with treatment because chances are something else would kill him first (they were right). I've met quite a few women in their 40s with breast cancer that required a lot of scary treatments.
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They're both cancer, but I think breast cancer is far more worse than prostrate. Dad had prostrate, but he didn't die from it, he was almost 98. Mom was diagnosed at 90, died 3 months before her next b-day, but she suffered for 3 months more than my dad. Dad at least died peacefully in his sleep.
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Regardless of which one is 'worse', I can tell you why breast cancer is higher profile - sheer hard work. People who campaign around illnesses are usually concerned with the illness that's affected them or their family. I know a couple who have a cild with a very rare life threatening condition (not a cancer). Much of their time is now taken up with campaigning around this condition - for more research, more education, more awareness etc Similarly, breast cancer awareness campaigns and BC Awareness Month were started by ordinary women, many of them with breast cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. Enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised (and then big business cashed in). There are, as I said, other cancer awareness months, ribbons etc, - but no cancer campaign has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has. Any group of people can start such an awareness campaign for any illness.
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