Get the finger fellas. Prostate cancer kills more than breast cancer

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Prostate cancer now kills more men than breast cancer kills women .

 

The upside is that breast cancer deaths are going down because breast cancer research is winning the battle and keeping more women alive. Prostate cancer has only half the amount spent on research and deaths are rising.

 

If you're considering giving to a specialist cancer charity please consider giving to Prostate cancer charities to make it as treatable as breast cancer soon. Let's keep those husbands, dads, partners, brothers and uncles alive.

 

Prostate cancer has become the third most common cause of cancer death in the UK, overtaking breast cancer, despite improvements in survival rates for both.

 

The top cancer killer in the UK is lung cancer, which claimed 35,486 lives in 2015, followed by colorectal cancer, with a toll of 16,067 people.

 

However, new figures reveal that 11,819 men died in the UK from prostate cancer in 2015, overtaking breast cancer, which resulted in the deaths of 11,442 women. While not included in the data, about 80 men are also thought to have died from breast cancer in 2015.

 

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Angela Culhane, chief executive of the charity Prostate Cancer UK which collated the figures, said the number of prostate cancer deaths had risen as a result of an ageing population, while improvements in research and screening meant the same effect was not seen for breast cancer.

 

“We haven’t yet got the big game-changing advances that breast cancer has had in terms of the screening programme and also the precision medicine developments,” said Culhane, adding that breast cancer had received twice as much money for research as prostate cancer. “We need to bust that myth that it is just an old man’s disease that you don’t need to think is significant,” she added.

 

According to the charity, while 72,513 pieces of research had been published on prostate cancer since 1999, more than 146,000 had been published on breast cancer. Meanwhile, Prostate Cancer UK estimates that £120m is needed for research over the next eight years to halve the number of prostate cancer deaths expected by 2026.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/02/prostate-cancer-now-kills-more-people-than-breast-cancer-uk-figures-reveal

[Annie Bynnol]

Good post to highlight the dangers of Prostate Cancer.

Agree totally apart from the title. "Get the finger fellas. ...".

 

The association between the "finger" and prostate cancer is causing some men not to go for the initial test -which is a prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood tests. The "finger" is no longer essential or required according to Nick James' Professor of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and University of Birmingham. On Radio 5 today.From 2.09.55

 

Please do your bit and ask for the title to be changed.

[The Joker]

The association between the "finger" and prostate cancer is causing some men not to go for the initial test

 

this is why breast cancer detection rates are higher, because squeezing boobies is much more fun

[ANGELFIRE1]

Had the finger several times over the years, and the prostate biopsy just the once. Both are painless, but quite embarrassing in my opinion. Having things stuffed up where the sun doesn't shine just aint natural, especialy when young female students are present. (You are asked permission to allow them to watch the procedure) I said yes, they have to learn after all.

 

My results came back as an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH) so no cancer cells were found, thankfully.

 

Angel1.

[hackey lad]

this is why breast cancer detection rates are higher, because squeezing boobies is much more fun

 

:o:o:o:)

[tzijlstra]

Had the finger several times over the years, and the prostate biopsy just the once. Both are painless, but quite embarrassing in my opinion. Having things stuffed up where the sun doesn't shine just aint natural, especialy when young female students are present. (You are asked permission to allow them to watch the procedure) I said yes, they have to learn after all.

 

My results came back as an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH) so no cancer cells were found, thankfully.

 

Angel1.

 

Angel, we don't often agree or see eye-to-eye on things you auld curmudgeon, but on this we are agreed and I think this is an excellent post. Worthy of consideration for the post of the year (should SF have an award ceremony).

 

Prostate cancer is a real threat to men and not enough of us are taking it seriously.

[Ontarian1981]

Had the finger several times over the years, and the prostate biopsy just the once. Both are painless, but quite embarrassing in my opinion. Having things stuffed up where the sun doesn't shine just aint natural, especialy when young female students are present. (You are asked permission to allow them to watch the procedure) I said yes, they have to learn after all.

 

My results came back as an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH) so no cancer cells were found, thankfully.

 

Angel1.

 

I have the PSA bloodwork every year and, touch wood, nothing other than your condition, not had the "finger" for years. Besides I was put off that when someone warned me to be wary of doctors who place BOTH hands on your shoulders when doing the check

[petemcewan]

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Absolutely spot on. One can have your blood checked by your GP.It called, " Prostate Antigen Test. I'd you like to add a little to the discussion. I have a couple of friends who have been diagnosed with Anal Cancer.A simple Anal Pap Test- I would suggest- should be carried out at every GUM. If diagnosed early the treatment is very successful. A PAP test is not routinely offered at GUMs

-There's a strong connection between HPV and Anal

 

Cancer.

 

 

Ontarian 1981.

 

Cheeky boy.

 

And of course, one can be vaccinated against HPV virus.

Edited February 3, 2018 by petemcewan