PROSTATE CANCER RATE COMPARED TO BREAST CANCER:
Though men face similar fates from prostate cancer as women do from breast cancer, public awareness and publicity about this similarity appears low. Still, one in six men in the U.S. are expected to be afflicted by prostate cancer in their lifetimes while one in eight women face a similar outcome with breast cancer.
The number of annual deaths from each cancer also bear comparison. The American Cancer Society estimated that 33,720 men would die from prostate cancer in 2011. Breast Cancer.org reported that 39,520 women were expected to die from breast cancer the same year. I couldn't find actual statistics for those years. Women have roughly outnumbered men 51 to 49 over the last decade.
Another point to consider is that men are reported to die at a later age than women from their respective cancers, many of the recent deaths said to be of men born in the 1930s when their birth rate was low. I was born in 1936.
One intriguing question is why there appears to be less publicity about prostate cancer. One answer, I think, could lie in the relationship between prostate cancer and sexual dysfunction.
Links below lead to more details regarding this post.
http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2011/06/17/acs-projects-33000-prostate-cancer-deaths-in-us-in-2011/
http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics
(Draft background segment for a book I'm working on)
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