I never understood the whole breast cancer awareness syndrome, which causes male athletes to wear pink for a month in some sort of show of solidarity. How about prostate awareness month for a disease that strikes men at a higher ratet per 100,0000 than the breast cancer rate for women.
I’ve delt with this cancer, so far so good. It happens, so face it and move on. There’s a lot worse issues in the cancer world to worry about. God help the ones I knew with worse and those dealing with worse now. Sometimes we get the bear. Sometimes we don’t, but surrender is not an option.
In the modern world, men apparently don’t matter as much it seems.
One factoid is that a huge number of men get Prostate Cancer, but in the majority of the cases it is so slow growing intervention is considered more dangerous than leaving it alone. It’s been a while since I looked in detail, but from autopsies of elderly men something like 80% of them had PC when they died - but died from something other than PC.
Not to diminish the danger or awareness of PC. If diagnosed you gotta watch it closely. But in many cases a man will die from something else. That is not the same as BC. Though both diseases can be treated, in part, by surgery since breast and prostate can be removed (unlike lungs for example) without killing the patient. The problem is that you can remove these tissues but you can never be sure that some of the cells aren’t still circulating and will eventually metastasize somewhere else. That is what makes them great candidates for immunotherapies - remove the glands/tissue, the teach the body to kill any remaining cells related to the removed tissue.
I am not a doctor, just something I researched years back (unrelated to me personally).