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I feel the same way on this. I do not under stand why breast cancer is so much more popular then other cancers. Then everywhere you look some company is putting out a pink something or other to support it.
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Breast Cancer, if caught early enough, has an incredibly high rate of survival, probably much more than any other type. The problem is education and access. My wife walked 2 years ago and I guess they raised somewhere around 5million bucks in Alberta which was then used to purchase a portable "detection" machine (I know, very scientific) so that they can bring it to rural areas and test women.
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
About 182,460 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2008. About 40,480 women will die from the disease this year. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is about 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates are going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and improved treatment.
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And I don't want to speak out of turn here, but I'm guessing a large portion of those with lung cancer are "self induced".
re: Prostate Cancer, the average age of diagnosis is 70, while I believe for breast cancer it is around 55. My guess is there is less sympathy for a disease that affects men at such an old age.