in his lifetime is 17 percent -- roughly 4.5 percent greater than a woman's risk of getting breast cancer. One could argue that there is inequality in the way american society treats the sexes when it comes to cancer: Do we celebrate prostate cancer awareness month? Stage walks for prostate cancer research? Wear purple ribbons? Why not??
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Yes actually we do have those things for men who have prostate cancer. You should do more research.
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My grandfather died of prostate cancer, I donate to all cancer funds nothing specific though but I would support it no doubt if there was a stage walk or something. You should start something though, maybe bring awareness to it.
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Prostate cancer and breast cancer are both unbelievably commercialized and politicized - to the point of having much more awareness, funding and organization than other, more serious and more prevalent cancers (the most prevalent example being lung cancer, which strikes and kills nearly twice as often as the gender-specific cancers in both sexes). It can certainly be argued, and argued well, that the commercialization of breast cancer has been more successful than the commercialization of prostate cancer (let's buy those pink ribbons, folks!). But I don't think the ideal solution is to have a male-only version of the disease just as trendy as the female one; I think the ideal solution would be if cancer research (and in particular funding for that research) would break down the unnecessary borders between politicized body parts, and look to treatments of the disease in general. The politicization of certain cancers has always bothered me - and only more so when you have personal experience with the people who are victimized by it (i.e. people diagnosed with less popular but similar forms of cancer who are given abysmal survival rates and substandard treatment because of the relative public disinterest in their forms of cancer).
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Good question! As a first and important step, we have to identify a color that will be used on all our prostate cancer campaigns. Hopefully the president won't budge to Feminist pressure when they call this "testosterone drive" like when they stopped him on his first endeavor.
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There's a blue ribbon campaign. Some people don't like it but some have embraced it. The seniors golf tour wears them. I volunteer for a 5K run on Father's day that is in support of prostate cancer research. Many, many women also volunteer and participate in the run. You see families running together as a team, sometimes literally carrying grandpa the whole way, mothers and fathers pushing baby carts...It is almost unbelievable to see how much people support it considering a few years ago men's issues were nobody's concern. But apparently we need to wait for 40 years until we are considered on the same level as far as "society" is concerned. Because it took 40 years of very hard work before anybody cared about breast cancer. So, I guess fair is fair.
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Personally I am sick of seeing pink on everything I want to purchase. Hell I can't even watch a football game without seeing players wearing pink shoes! But along with that I am not going to criticize women for taking breast cancer to the masses and organizing for better breast cancer awareness. Men do not want to do this. So do not blame women. It is not up to them to make us more vocal. Breast cancer is just a money maker now, that is all. People do not donate to any other specific cancer charity like breast cancer. If you want big donations just slap a pink ribbon it. I wish we would just deal with cancer. There are many more deadly cancers out there that deserve just as much attention as breast cancer.
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In an ideal world, we would allocate available resources based on science and urgency instead of political considerations. Sadly, our world is far from ideal.
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CAustin II above said it best, and why not more research and study on pancreatic cancer. That's a much more serious form of cancer, and isn't detected until its nearing, or in, the final stages when its too late to cure. My brother had prostrate cancer at a very young age, it was detected, and cured in a relatively short period of time. It gets big funding because of Major League Baseball making everyone aware of it. Maybe we should make the NFL aware of pancreatic cancer so they can help do something about that.
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Yes, in a normal world I could agree that prostate cancer is more serious the breast cancer. And we should as humans wear yellow ribbons for men. But from the beginning, men have stated that they are stronger, and superior to women. So therefore men have never admitted that external testicles are a weakness, or a prostrate is a weakness. And have always tried to control women, therefore there is no campaign against prostrate cancer, because men do not believe that their so called superior organs might be inferior to women.
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