This is a nit to pick, but are women still pretending breast cancer isn't talked about. Every major sports league, with male players, all have breast cancer events annually. Even professional wrestling has breast cancer events. You know what's never mentioned in these men heavy participants and viewers, prostate cancer.
I get so tired of hearing about breast cancer. And do you know what else never gets brought up? Men can get breast cancer. But you never see dudes in all those survivor events.
It's because "raising awareness" activism is easy and lucrative. Raise $1m (through donors or government grants from your friends in the bureaucracy), pay yourself $200k, pay some spokesperson celebrity $150k, and use the rest to pay a crew to "produce" a 30-second spot and a flyer.
So "raising awareness" activists agitate for more and more funding, and bigger and bigger "awareness" campaigns.
It's a grift for otherwise completely useless people.
"Raising awareness" is advertisement without a product. It's a marketing company realizing that they can market themselves if they pick the right name. An advertisement raising funding for more advertisements.
Its not only shouted from every fucking corner possible, but its been billions if not trillions of dollars "raised" for it and barely a difference made in terms of actually doing anything about it.
They still just go to chemo, lose their hair, and get their tit removed. Same old song and dance as it ever was.
The difference in death rate is minuscule to the amount we could have improved every single life in America by just giving them that money back as a rebate. Including preventing deaths from literally everything else.
Breast cancer kills more women (42250) than prostate cancer kills men (35250), but the delta between the two is not very large, breast cancer deaths is about 16 percent larger number.
The difference is American society is gynocentric now. Women needs and desires take center stage, so this is why you have breast cancer awareness month, breast cancer campaigns in every major sports league, and research for breast cancer is funded at much higher levels.
There’s some caveats here, breast cancer kills women at an older age than prostate cancer kills men. Breast cancer kills 19.3 per 100k, prostate cancer kills 19.0 per 100k, however this again ignores that men are far more likely to die from heart disease or stroke long before any cancer forms. The funding is always 2-3:1 for breast cancer and prostate cancer respectively. There’s also the fact that breast cancer gets grifted as far higher rates per dollar spent, the Komen foundation was notorious for essentially money laundering their donations into their “expenses”.
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends almost three times more on breast cancer research ( $700 million) than on prostate cancer research ($250 million)
You've made the point about perfectly. All that I would add is the weaknesses of prostate antigen testing. Essentially it's just looking for immunological signs of prostate tissue in the blood as opposed to the prostate, a sign of cancer. Other things can cause this and the rate of false diagnoses is high enough that even investigating for prostate cancer is discouraged until men are of advanced age. Biopsies are more resource intensive, so most systems, universal or private, make an effort to frustrate people out of bothering.
Because of the lack of dialogue, there's not much being done for more reliable screening where women have mammograms and blood work that can detect it and confirm it.
It's the most publicized cancer and there's a whole self-sustaining industry around it that is more about branding and fundraising than any actual research. It's basically a service where people can pay you to feel good about themselves.
That said, it IS one of the cancers that you can catch early yourself and survivability is high if caught early. Breast, testicular, and skin do benefit from "awareness" in a way others do not. No one is noticing a stage 1 lump in their pancreas.
Is Movember anywhere near as visible as any breast cancer charity? When I put cancer into my phone a pink ribbon is a suggestion, Movember doesn't have that.
Movember also gets the usual bitching about how women are the Real Victims™ of prostate cancer. They lose their husbands, brothers, and sons, after all.
This is a nit to pick, but are women still pretending breast cancer isn't talked about. Every major sports league, with male players, all have breast cancer events annually. Even professional wrestling has breast cancer events. You know what's never mentioned in these men heavy participants and viewers, prostate cancer.
I get so tired of hearing about breast cancer. And do you know what else never gets brought up? Men can get breast cancer. But you never see dudes in all those survivor events.
It's because "raising awareness" activism is easy and lucrative. Raise $1m (through donors or government grants from your friends in the bureaucracy), pay yourself $200k, pay some spokesperson celebrity $150k, and use the rest to pay a crew to "produce" a 30-second spot and a flyer.
So "raising awareness" activists agitate for more and more funding, and bigger and bigger "awareness" campaigns.
It's a grift for otherwise completely useless people.
"Raising awareness" is advertisement without a product. It's a marketing company realizing that they can market themselves if they pick the right name. An advertisement raising funding for more advertisements.
Its not only shouted from every fucking corner possible, but its been billions if not trillions of dollars "raised" for it and barely a difference made in terms of actually doing anything about it.
They still just go to chemo, lose their hair, and get their tit removed. Same old song and dance as it ever was.
The difference in death rate is minuscule to the amount we could have improved every single life in America by just giving them that money back as a rebate. Including preventing deaths from literally everything else.
Yes, the superbowl commercials had once claiming it isn’t talked about.
Breast cancer kills more women (42250) than prostate cancer kills men (35250), but the delta between the two is not very large, breast cancer deaths is about 16 percent larger number.
The difference is American society is gynocentric now. Women needs and desires take center stage, so this is why you have breast cancer awareness month, breast cancer campaigns in every major sports league, and research for breast cancer is funded at much higher levels.
There’s some caveats here, breast cancer kills women at an older age than prostate cancer kills men. Breast cancer kills 19.3 per 100k, prostate cancer kills 19.0 per 100k, however this again ignores that men are far more likely to die from heart disease or stroke long before any cancer forms. The funding is always 2-3:1 for breast cancer and prostate cancer respectively. There’s also the fact that breast cancer gets grifted as far higher rates per dollar spent, the Komen foundation was notorious for essentially money laundering their donations into their “expenses”.
I recall they tried to trademark the color pink.
You've made the point about perfectly. All that I would add is the weaknesses of prostate antigen testing. Essentially it's just looking for immunological signs of prostate tissue in the blood as opposed to the prostate, a sign of cancer. Other things can cause this and the rate of false diagnoses is high enough that even investigating for prostate cancer is discouraged until men are of advanced age. Biopsies are more resource intensive, so most systems, universal or private, make an effort to frustrate people out of bothering.
Because of the lack of dialogue, there's not much being done for more reliable screening where women have mammograms and blood work that can detect it and confirm it.
In both men and women, right? 🤔
Surely you jest, sir
I jest not, and don't call me Shirley.
...I miss Leslie Neilson.
It's the most publicized cancer and there's a whole self-sustaining industry around it that is more about branding and fundraising than any actual research. It's basically a service where people can pay you to feel good about themselves.
That said, it IS one of the cancers that you can catch early yourself and survivability is high if caught early. Breast, testicular, and skin do benefit from "awareness" in a way others do not. No one is noticing a stage 1 lump in their pancreas.
Don't worry, if you mention this to a Feminist, they'll just tell you it's because men are sexist and only care about saving boobs, not the women.
I remember reading that lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer.
But because its not a woman-only disease it receives a small fraction of the research funding
Ovarian and prostate cancer are gendered. Anyone can get breast cancer.
Technically True. But I heard it depends upon the amount of breast tissue.
So predominantly women.
Breast cancer isn't a woman's only disease, men can get it.
Some of it is psycho feminism but mostly it gets the most attention because people love boobs.
Seems you forgot Movember was and still is a thing
Is Movember anywhere near as visible as any breast cancer charity? When I put cancer into my phone a pink ribbon is a suggestion, Movember doesn't have that.
Movember also gets the usual bitching about how women are the Real Victims™ of prostate cancer. They lose their husbands, brothers, and sons, after all.
I also googled and saw the CEO is a woman.