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Should the majority of Breast cancer awareness focus on male breast cancer?
Even though women are number one victims of breast cancer some men die from it as well. Since society views this a woman only disease shouldn't they focus more effort on educating and helping men's breast cancer awareness?
But that type of justification is used for giving more funding to women's heart disease. So why wouldn't it be acceptable in the reverse?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The right question is, shouldn't more money be spent on prostate cancer research than breast cancer research?
Why? Because more men get prostate cancer than women get breast cancer. Because the side effects for successful treatment of prostate cancer (incontinence, impotence, sterility, bowel 'incontinence', inability of have an orgasm, dead or excised prostate gland, sometimes female hormone treatment or testicular removal) are much worse than the side effects of successful treatment of breast cancer (excised breast). Because the the prostate cancer death rate is equal to the breast cancer death rate. And because we have been spending three times as much for breast cancer research as prostate cancer research.
Why do we we spend so much more for breast cancer research than for prostate cancer research? Because feminist organizations have successfully lobbied congress to prevent an Office of Men's Health. Because feminist organizations have successfully lobbied congress to prevent redressing the funding disparity. Because main-stream politically-active feminists are anti-male bigots.
Isn't it time for a change?
Source(s): me. - professorcLv 71 decade ago
No. I don't consider this a woman only disease. We don't need to change health policy just because some idiots don't know better.
New recommendations are out for prostate cancer - doctors are urged not to test men or treat them unnecessarily.
Men die with prostate cancer- men and women of breast cancer.
- 1 decade ago
maybe in a forum directed at men, men's magazines or something. or maybe awareness could be raised amongst doctors, or alongside the woman's prevention and awareness movement, but not more focus. it wouldn't be very productive toward fighting the disease to focus on a group that is less affected.
- 1 decade ago
The percentage of breast cancer funding spent on men should be equal to the percentage of breast cancer patients who are male.
It's only fair.
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- 1 decade ago
no, a portion can be dedicated to men but there are way more victims who are women. Women are just more likely to get it because they have more tissue in their breasts.
