cancer research prostate
cancer research prostate
The possibility of a man getting prostate cancer?
in his life is 17 percent – about 4.5 percent higher risk of a woman of 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 rides for prostate cancer research? Wear purple ribbons? Why not?
Prostate cancer and breast cancer are incredibly commercialized and politicized – to the point of having a lot more awareness, funding and organization that other, more serious and more common cancers (the most common example lung cancer, which strikes and kills nearly twice that gender specific cancers in both sexes). Certainly, there is, and also argued that the marketing of breast cancer has been more successful that the marketing of prostate cancer (going to buy those pink ribbons, folks!). But I think the ideal solution is to have a male-only version disease as well as fashionable as the women, I think the ideal solution is that if cancer research (and in particular funding for research) would break down the barriers unnecessarily politicized body parts, and look at the treatments of the disease in general. politicization of certain types of cancer always bothered me – and indeed only when you have personal experience with people who are victims of it (ie those diagnosed with less popular, but similar forms of cancer survival rates are abysmal and poor treatment due to the relative lack of public interest in its forms of cancer).
