Prostate cancer's 'forgotten 10,000'. The disease claims 10,000 lives a year in Britain - almost as many as breast cancer, which kills 12,000 annually - but receives just a fifth of the research funding.

grimreeper · 2012-01-29T13:02:46+00:00

Not surprised. Breast cancer has boob power, if prostate cancer wants to run ads then what? show everyone goatse?

ignatiusloyola · 2012-01-29T07:10:50+00:00

I think the argument here is that the average age for prostate cancer victims is older than the average age for breast cancer victims, and so it doesn't really matter.

I don't know how valid that is - of course I worded it very pessimistically.

CrippledDoctorHouse · 2012-01-29T08:22:14+00:00

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rogersmith25 · 2012-01-29T17:02:56+00:00

Has any else noticed how many "Women's Cancer" charities there are? I see them advertised all the time. There are walks to end "Women's Cancer" and commercials where they ask you to donate money to fight "Women's Cancer".

This is the most offensive example of the implicit disposability of all men. If you give money to a charity like this you are implicitly saying, "Whatever happens, don't help any men with this money."

Ayn_Rand_Was_Right · 2012-01-29T12:04:05+00:00

Is this an accomplishment or a complaint?

Another way of saying this:

Breast cancer research gets five times the funding that prostate cancer does, yet still has more deaths annually.

2012-01-29T16:11:28+00:00

In Canada, Breast Cancer Foundation took in $47 mil, and spent less than $1 on research. The rest was salaries (some in the 100-200k range), expenses, etc.

Prostate cancer is receiving a lot more exposure, especially since the death of the govt's official opposition leader, Jack Layton.

Now, breast cancer and prostate cancer receive 300x more funding than stomach, colon, pancreatic, and lung combined. Even though the deaths and survival rates of the latter are much greater.

2012-01-29T22:03:10+00:00

Movember was a success though (in the uk at least). Many of my school teachers supported it and female students were even posting Facebook photos of sharpie moustaches on them

dbe · 2012-01-29T13:58:04+00:00

Not all money is put toward a cure. In fact most isn't. A lot of it is free screenings, cosmetic surgery (imagine being a young single female with only one tit), and help with treatments.

OirishM · 2012-01-29T15:32:44+00:00

Is there an issue of demand here beyond gender politics? I would have thought men are probably less likely to get checked out for physical complaints, but I'm probably over-generalising.

HighBeamHater · 2012-01-29T23:36:17+00:00

I'm a mens rights advocate but think about this from a marketing perspective...

What would you rather "save"?

A young woman's breasts, or an old man's asshole?

Ayn_Rand_Was_Right · 2012-01-29T15:30:28+00:00

My mom is all about heart disease. She gets calls from breast cancer groups asking for money, and she shuts them down with the force of 1000 suns. She actually tells them that she will donate after she has donated to everything else. She also goes into a fury like a viking on pcp every time pink ribbon stuff is mentioned.

megacrabmaster · 2012-01-29T14:18:29+00:00

two of my uncles have had prostate cancer, my great grand-father died of prostate cancer, it is very unsettling to know how I am most likely to die.

shahminhajuddin · 2012-01-29T13:35:46+00:00

sad innocent men are being left behind while all play the drum of FEMINISM and illusional equality and victim game ! :/

martinvii · 2012-01-29T15:03:45+00:00

Can someone please explain to me why this is a men's rights issue I know that might seem like a stupid question, but in my mind, there are many diseases out there that do not receive as much attention as breast cancer, so I guess I'm wondering why this one in particular is a men's rights issue.

Able_Seacat_Simon · 2012-01-29T08:58:25+00:00

You do know that people that care about breast cancer care more about curing breast cancer than sticking it to men and their prostates. It's just kind of weird that your movement has turned this into a sick game.

2012-01-29T17:45:10+00:00

All that money should be taken away from them. Selfish feminists deserve it.

Lhun · 2012-01-29T13:21:27+00:00

If they stopped drinking milk, they would likely be alive. Sweden and Norway have the highest breast cancer and prostate cancer rates of any country. I wonder why that is? ;-) if other people aren't going to take care of us and give us a voice or a cure, we need to take care of ourselves.