There seems to be a big push on lately for fundraising for Prostate Cancer. I just checked the Canadian Cancer Society website and the stats for Canadian men are that 1 in 7 will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. Pretty high. Breast cancer is also highly diagnosed, I think it's 1 in 9 for women (although men can get this too).
I know some people get upset about certain cancer's getting all the "attention" and large amounts of funding. But when you see stats like 1 in 7 and 1 in 9, it makes sense that they would go aggresively after researching and funding the cancers that are affecting so many people.
So I guess that didn't really address your question specifically... but I thought I'd throw those stats out there since Prostate and Breast Cancer do seem to be among the more well publicized fundraising efforts.
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