President, NCFM Los Angeles
Here’s an important public service announcement from the Prostate Cancer Foundation called “Keep Dad in the Game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMv5gDiDco&
Prostate cancer strikes one out of six men, but prostate cancer research gets only a fraction of the annual funding that breast cancer research receives.
It is estimated that 217,730 men will be diagnosed with and 32,050 men will die of cancer of the prostate in 2010, according to information on the National Cancer Institute website.
The number of men who contract prostate cancer is about the same as the number of women getting breast cancer. The disparity in annual, government research funding between the two cancers is striking and discriminatory, illustrating yet again the institutionalized misandry existing in Western societies, in my opinion.