Breast cancer research receives 50 times the amount of money that prostate cancer research receives.
40,000 women die per year because of breast cancer. Yet, 27,000 men die from prostate cancer.
Supposedly, dads, sons, and husbands are important to women.
How do you feel about the way-out-of-proportion amount of money that breast cancer resereach receives even though your dads and sons are just as much at risk of dying from prostate cancer?
Do you give money to breast cancer research while giving little to prostate cancer?
2007-01-15 23:37:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Women's Health
Early testing is the key to prostate cancer.
It's that simple.
Prostate cancer is highly treatable in its early stages.
This goes for testicular cancer as well.
This isn't so with breast cancer.
However, heart disease is still the #1 killer!
tc
2007-01-15 23:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't realize there was such a big difference, wow. I never see affiliations collecting for prostate cancer research. So...next question is, what do we do about it?
2007-01-15 23:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by MeanKitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
seeing as i am a woman i think that it should be equal. woman and men are equal and prostate cancer is on the rise.
2007-01-15 23:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by stephanie o 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I lost my Mother to ovarian cancer, yet I almost never hear a word about it anywhere. The blood test for prostate is covered by insurance, but the blood test for ovarian cancer is not. How is THAT fair?
2007-01-15 23:54:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋