Prostate cancer strikes one in six men but gets very little funding for research
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- MotherForTruth
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Prostate cancer strikes one out of six men, but prostate cancer research gets only a fraction of the annual funding that breast cancer research receives.
It is estimated that 217,730 men will be diagnosed with and 32,050 men will die of cancer of the prostate in 2010, according to information on the National Cancer Institute website. Table I-1 (http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/ 1975_2007/results_single/ sect_01_table.01.pdf).”
The number of men who contract prostate cancer is about the same as the number of women getting breast cancer. The disparity in annual, government research funding between the two cancers is striking and discriminatory, illustrating yet again the institutionalized misandry existing in Western societies, in my opinion.
http://ncfm.org/2011/08/news/mens-health/prostate-cancer-strikes-one-in-six-men-...
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congoboy
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a healthier diet works wonders. education and prevention is more effective than a cure
- 8 months ago
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congoboy
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MotherForTruth
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congoboy:
The same can be said about anything. Try telling this to a breast cancer patient.
- 8 months ago
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MotherForTruth
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congoboy
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MotherForTruth:
so is that a statement or an argument?
- 8 months ago
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congoboy
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MotherForTruth
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congoboy:
What do you think the response would be if you said "I am sorry you just learned you have a breast cancer, but healthier diet, education and prevention works wonders"?
I would guess you would never do that. So why would you comment this way on the sad fact that prostate cancer effects 1 in 6 men and it is just as common as breast cancer yet unlike breast cancer there is no funding for research of prostate cancer.
- 8 months ago
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MotherForTruth
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congoboy
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MotherForTruth:
i never said that a cure should not be researched nor that funding for such would be a waste of money although there is a lot of fraud in heath care and its subsequent research. nor am i non empathetic to folks with disease. but if you can prevent disease through education, proper diet and or lifestyle changes such as if you know a certain habit or behavior is high risk to your health ie: smoking can cause cancer, so dont smoke dumb ass or if you carry on with unhealthy emotionless promiscuous sex, wear a condom dumb ass. and if you choose to carry on with high risk health detrimental behavior with the knowledge that it is risky, am i somehow responsible for your care?
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congoboy
