Breast vs prostate cancer

[smearsforfears]

Point me in the right direction if I missed a thread on this.

Last week, I heard a lot on the radio about prostate cancer now overtaking breast cancer in the mortality figures, and that there should be equality of funding. Jeremy Vine even had a women on from a breast cancer fundraising charity to justify why they were doing better than the men.

Was I the only one thinking "good for us, funding research into breast cancer and attending screening, if the men want to sort prostate cancer, I'll look forward to them doing midnight walks etc."

Why did it feel like the media were saying "those women funding breast cancer research, and hogging it. They should be funding the men's research equally! IT'S NOT FAIR!"

Not to mention how, apparently, a blood test and rectal exam for screening is unacceptable to men, yet smearing lipstick is just the same as us having our cervixes scraped, and we 'fail' if we don't attend. Why is a rectal exam unacceptable for men, yet a vaginal exam ok for us? They don't even need a speculum/proctoscope for it!

Am I being unfair to think that I'm glad the issue is highlighted, and look forward to the men coming together to raise awareness, and fundraise, like we did for breast cancer?

I’d like to think this wasn’t a feminist issue as breast cancer isn’t a female only cancer in fact I think Male breast cancer is on the increase. I once saw a quote that if the money spent on breast cancer research alone had been spent on research into all cancers that an overall cure would already have been found. I wholeheartedly agree it’s upto men to raise money for our issues but at the same time men only causes are attacked by feminists as being misogynistic. Why should it be so hard for people as a whole to agree that the cancer as a whole is bad and all cancers are equal?

Yeah the reporting is ridicuous, as are the people who are moaning about how unfair it is that women raise money for breast cancer and not prostate cancer. If people are concerned about the funding for prostate cancer, they can always fundraise/donate, surely. Rather than just moaning. If every person I have seen twisting about this donated a tenner, funding levels would go up like 10000%

Agree with OllyBJolly - how would you expect to get the most effective distribution of research between all the different diseases if you’re relying on the relative marketing and fundraising abilities of charities?