Why Such A Strong Push To Cure Breast Cancer?

25 Responses for "Why Such A Strong Push To Cure Breast Cancer?"

1. Ken December 14th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

   Denise said its not more important. its equally the same as every other life threatning disease.
   Really? Spending in 1997 on research looked something like this: Breast Cancer $12,800/death, prostate cancer $2,700/death.) Since then, it the gap has grown wider.
   The National Cancer Institute also reported that during the period 1950-1991, women’s rate of death from breast cancer increased 2% while men’s rate of death from prostate cancer increased 25%. Until the last few years, you never heard anything about prostate cancer. Even today, it’s not a high priority on health programs or the news. There’s no postage stamp or brochures at the post office. (The second Breast Cancer postage stamp will soon be issued to raise awareness of breast cancer and to fund additional research.) There’s no special research or funding organizations for prostate cancer, no national prevention month, week or even day.
   This is not to say that everything that is being done to find a cure for breast cancer should not be done. However, where do men’s health issues fit in in your local news analysis and reporting? What about the fact that of the 15 leading causes of death, men lead in every single category.
   There are a lot of free screenings for breast cancer for poor women, none of any sort for poor men.
   One has only to look for the pink for many products rasing funds for breast cancer. Do you see any fund rasing for prostate cancer? Even during the prostate cancer awarness week in Sept, I saw more effort to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer then I did for prostate cancer.
   Oh yea…I sure do not see the feminist screaming about this….instead they are only screaming that there is a health care gap. There sure is…but is not against women!
   Is it not time to value ALL our people?

2. Anatol Kuragin December 14th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

   It’s a form of radical feminism that nutjob women keep advocating.

3. Stargaze December 15th, 2009 at 2:21 am

   I understand your question, but please be sensitive to those who have this disease or who have lost loved ones.
   Miscarriage, obesity, bottle feeding and other things also contribute to Breast Cancer. There can also be psychological factors influencing its development. Women who do not get on with their Mothers in Law also have a higher rate of Breast Cancer.
   My friend’s mum died 20 years ago from Breast Cancer. She was a lovely Christian woman, who did not have an abortion.
   I am very anti abortion; but do not believe that this is an appropriate question with which to bring up the subject.
   We all need to dig into our pockets and help fund all research into all cancers. This would be impossible, so even to pick one charity and contribute would help.

4. 006 December 15th, 2009 at 8:14 am

   Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in both incidence and death among women:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_canc…
   There is no link between abortion and breast cancer:http://www.fwhc.org/abortion/abcancer.ht…

5. *I CURED My Yellow Teeth* December 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am

   If you’ve ever gone on a breast cancer walk, you’ll see that there are a boatload of women who somehow blame – get this – blame MEN for their breast cancer.
   They also claim that “a man must have invented the mammogram machine” because it’s so painful.
   Yeah – that’s right some guy with a flat-boob fetish came along and saw this vulnerable group of women and shouted “AHA – I have an idea!”

6. neinil December 15th, 2009 at 11:15 am

   What is your source/proof that abortion causes breast cancer? What is wrong with anyone trying to eradicate any disease? There are groups that raise money for all the other diseases you list there. Lung cancer is largely caused by smoking, something which the individual could’ve prevented in the first place.
   Women in the U.S. have a 1 in 8 lifetime chance of developing invasive breast cancer and a 1 in 33 chance of breast cancer causing their death. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 40,000 women die from breast cancer annually.

7. Larrie December 15th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   Perhaps a cure to breasts cancer will lead to a cure of prostrate cancer. If more men lived to 80 (right now the ratio age 80 is 2 females to 1 male), more men would be dieing of prostrate cancer the women of breast cancer.

8. Alicen December 15th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

   Because its more common

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