why do you hear so much about breast cancer awareness and never anything about testicular cancer?
and yes, i realize this is "breast cancer awareness month", but it seems you always hear about it and there are all these charities but you hardly hear anything about testicular cancer. i'm not trying to be rude, i have someone close to me who is very sick with breast cancer, but i was just wondering. yes kathy, i have. did you read my details? you don't hear about testicular cancer nearly as much as breast cancer.
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possibly because testicular cancer is easy to find in an examination by your doctor, it is slow growing, and it is easily treated and cured. No so for breast cancer.
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Breast cancer is the number 2 cancer killer for women. Testicular cancer isn't even in the top 10 for men. That's why.
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The reason breast cancer has a consistently higher profile than other cancers is simple - sheer hard work. People who campaign around illnesses are usually concerned with the illness that's affected them or their family. I know a couple who have a child with a very rare and life-threatening condition (not a cancer). Much of their time is now taken up with campaigning around this condition - fundraising and agitating for more funding for research, more education, more awareness etc Similarly, breast cancer awareness campaigns and Breast Cancer Awareness Month were started by ordinary women, many of them with breast cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. Enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised (and then big business cashed in). There are other cancer awareness months, ribbons etc; here's a list: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_1_Cancer_Calendar.asp - but no cancer campaign has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has. As for why testicular cancer in particular is not heard about as much as breast cancer, the statistics go some way towards explaining: One woman in eight will develop breast cancer. In the UK an average of 33 women die from it every day (that's over 12,000 a year), and in the US an average of 112 women die from it every day - that's one every 15 minutes. Testicular cancer is rare; in the UK an average of 2,100 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer every year. In 2007, testicular cancer caused 58 deaths in the UK. Breast cancer is never considered cured; it can return at any time, even years after treatment. Treatment for testicular cancer is very effective and nearly all men are cured of the disease.
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The pink ribbon is not at all a symbol of compassion or caring. It is not a symbol of empowering women, or educating women about so called treatment options. The pink ribbon is a symbol of male-dominated control over women. Turn the pink ribbon upside down, and it looks more like a noose. It is from this noose that innocent women everywhere hang themselves though ignorance, submitting to a treatment system that intentionally denies women access to a world of information that could help them prevent, treat and even cure breast cancer. "Pinkwashing" "Breast cancer has been transformed into a market-driven industry. It has become more about making money for corporate sponsors than funding innovative ways to treat breast cancer" Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbon Inc. The only allowed treatments, of course, are those that benefit the drug companies and conventional medicine practitioners. Livestrong Foundation has connections with the cancer industry and big pharmo companies who don't want to find a cure because it is not in their best interest, they have too much to loose $$$$.
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Have you ever heard of the livestrong foundation??? guess not.
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Because the "Breast Cancer Awareness" crap is sucking all the life out of tv air time and there is none left for the rest of it. I have brain cancer and I am sick of hearing only about breast cancer this and breast cancer that. With all due respect to those who have been through breast cancer (including my own step-mother and my mother-in-law), the last time I looked, you don't need boobs, you need brains.
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I always wonder the same thing. I am a colon cancer survivor. The breast cancer survivors and I chide each other all the time in support group over their pink everywhere. I think it probably has something to do with how common breast cancer is. I also think it's because breast cancer is something that can be prevented with early detection. Still kind of miffs me, just enough to give the pink ladies a hard time and not buy anything pink during October. ;)
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Annually 8400 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer a year with about 340 deaths for testicular cancer a year. Breast cancer has about 190000 diagnosis a year and about 40000 deaths from breast cancer a year. In this case it is simple math
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