Posted on 08/17/2009 4:11:27 AM PDT by BGHater
The chart above shows the estimated number of new cancer cases in 2008 for gender-specific cancers, using data from the American Cancer Society. For men most of the cases were for prostate cancer, and for women it was mostly new cases of breast cancer, but also cervical and ovarian cancer. The ratio of new gender-specific cancers in 2008 was 1.32 new female cases of cancer for every one male case.
What about government funding for gender-specific cancers? The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimate that they will spend $4,446,000,000 in 2009 for female-specific cancers (breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and “women’s health”) and $299,000,000 for men’s cancer (prostate cancer), which is a ratio of almost 15:1 in favor of women (see chart below). For spending in 2009 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cancer Programs, the gap is even greater: they will spend $218 billion on female-specific cancers (breast, cervical, ovarian and gynecologic cancer) and $13.245 billion on prostate cancer, which is a ratio of 16.5 to 1 in favor of women (see chart below). 
Even adjusting for the greater rate of new cancer cases affecting women (1:32 to 1), and the fact that female cancers are deadlier than male cancers by a ratio of about 2:35 to 1, there still seems to significant gender gap in favor of women for federal spending on cancer research and prevention.
I think you’d have to factor in that 1) prostrate cancer is something now that apparently most men will develop if they live long enough and be better off just living with it rather than being treated for it, 2) how disproportionately heart disease research is focused on men when it’s already better research, understood and treated for men than for women, and 3) how much is spent on AIDS and other gay man-concentrated diseases already. Perhaps there is an over-focus on breast cancer (hey, who doesn’t like breasts?) but if so it’s probably a reaction against how much medical research has been focused on men instead of women and at the expense of other female-oriented diseases, such as uterine and ovary cancer because they are less popular to popularize.
*researched*
This is DISCRIMINATION!!!!
It is a sign of the times. A bad sign for evil times that will grown worse under the political monsters who have an agenda.
Look around yourselves and you can see the truth that is not told.
Or keep your head in the sand and pretend.
I don’t know about that but prostate Ca is not as big a killer as Breast and certainly not Ovarian which is the most deadly of all the sex specific Ca. Pancreatic and Colon are bad too.
The big three as far as I am concerned are Pancreatic, Ovarian and GI tract cancers.
Be good to factor in incidence and mortality prior to complaining about inequities based on gender. In other words, are we applying grants to fight the most deadly killers of the young and vital? ... or are we, as the report seems to imply statistically, ‘victims’ of a gender bias?
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