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Default WTF did the idea come from that prostate cancer treatment is worse than breast cancer - 09-17-2009, 10:58 PM

WOW.

This is the second time I've saw this written here. Who is spreading these lies?
"Perhaps because the complications and permanent side effects of "successful" prostate cancer treatment are so much worse than for breast cancer."

This isn't a man vs woman cancer thing, it's just common sense really.
I addressed why this was totally WRONG in either a question or an answer a few months ago (with sources) but it got deleted.

Is it some sort of line that anti-feminists are using these days or does someone want to clutch at straws and attempt to answer why the above is true (when it's not). I'd like to hear how you explain yourselves and where you're getting your information from.
Do you think that if you just repeat something enough times people will eventually start to believe it even though there's no evidence? Are YOU just repeating it because you heard someone else say it and it supports your "men are better than women and their illnesses deserve more undue attention than women's because I'm bitter that women get the right amount of attention and funding for diseases" theory
wt.. sources?
No that isn't true. Cite the percentage.
I didn't say the survival rate and it isn't man vs women it's about 2 treatments not how quickly they see a doctor for it
dude. I think it's you who can't read. Nobody said anything about survival rates or funding. It has nothing to do with what I'm saying regardless of how true that is or how much you want to make the point.
I quoted one of the people I was talking about. If you can't understand it then just skip to one of Jody's to make a funny comment
I didn't try to compare it. Someone else compared it and I'm saying that they're wrong, and stupid for trying to compare it.
So 2 out of 5 answers are just insults. Interesting.
Really? They died of cancer? That has what to do with my question .... ?
Do you really think I am the only person in the world who has not had cancer or ever known anybody to die of cancer? Try harder. Having family members die of the cancer doesn't mean you can't discuss the facts of it. I am doing it so why can't you
well THAT is obvious.

Where are your statistics that any significant amount suffer from those.

A complication of any surgery is death, so you may as well imply that most men die of the surgery if you seriously expect anyone to believe that most men who get treated for prostate cancer suffer from loss of bowel control. Half of those may as well not even be on the list.
what does that even mean? So far all people have done is attack me or talked about how non important breast cancer is. Fail.
   
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Default 09-18-2009, 10:58 PM

i don't think its worse.
When a woman gets chemo on her chest, her milk goes sour (or so they say)
   
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Default 09-19-2009, 10:58 PM

Statistics show that the survival rate for breast cancer is much higher than the survival rate for prostate cancer. This may be because prostate cancer is more difficult to cure, or it may be because prostate cancer does not get as much attention as breast cancer and men are less aware of the dangers than women are, and so less likely to seek treatment in the early stages.
   
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Default 09-24-2009, 10:58 PM

women get it treated and lose the breast so I don't see how prostate is worse, prostate you are fixed and done and you still have a buttocks, females, no boob!

All about early treatment, what they say now anyways is that since cancer is so genetic, where when you say your mom had it and or grandma, the chance is like 98%, plus you can pay to know if you are going to get prostate and it is very accurate and tell you the year and everything so you can tackle it now when it happens.
   
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Default 09-27-2009, 10:58 PM

Prostate cancer treatment is significantly worse than breast cancer treatment, in regards to the successful completion of the surgery, the male is left in a worse state than a female with breast cancer. The complexity of the surgery and the possibility of complications during prostate cancer removal is much higher. Men can be left infertile and without any testicles, while a woman is only left with half a breast.
   
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Default 09-28-2009, 10:58 PM

please re-write this and try again. It's incredibly clumsy and nearly unreadable.

This the second time you've saw this written here?

Anyway, regardless of what you seen, I myself don't recall anyone saying it's worse (at least not in so many words), just that prostate doesn't get the attention it deserves. I actually don't agree completely. It's not enough of a discrepancy to warrant getting the drawers too twisted up. But, if you want an explanation, here goes:

In the U.S., prostate cancer kills about 32,000 per year, breast cancer a little over 40,000 (these figures vary from site to site). But almost twice as much is spent on breast cancer research as on prostate - 572 million vs 290 million, and this discrepancy is the basis for most of the complaints I've run across.
   
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Default 10-01-2009, 10:58 PM

cancer is no joke..you are an absolute sadist and an idiot for even TRYING to compare who suffers more...
   
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Default 10-06-2009, 10:58 PM

my grandfather died from it
and two of his sons are doctors
you are spitting on his grave and the grave of every other cancer patient
shame on you
   
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Default 10-09-2009, 10:58 PM

The answer is simple (and as you know, I wrote the words that you quote). The "complications" of many successful prostate cancer treatments include:

castration

sterility

incontinence

impotence

loss of bowel control

inability to ever have another orgasm

Indeed, so bad are these prospective complications that many men opt to avoid the surgery altogether, and many physicians take a "watch and wait" approach, hoping (in effect) that something else leads to the man's death first.


It takes little reflection to recognize that these complications for successfully-treated patients are worse health outcomes than the negative health outcomes of successful treatment of breast cancer.
   
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Default 10-14-2009, 10:58 PM

With all the money being donated to breast cancer research during the last few breast cancer awareness months, in addition to the money people donate outside of the month, you'd think that they would have something by now.
   
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