DoNotDelete wrote:It's the inequal coverage that prostate cancer gets in relation to breast cancer in the wider media that bothers me.
Prostate cancer occurs just as frequently in men as breast cancer occurs in women, but you wouldn't know that based on the media/public bias toward breast cancer.
Only recently have the TV ads for cancer charities been bringing prostate cancer into consideration (in my country anyway).
I mean yeah, breast cancer research is a charity specifically for that kind of cancer and breast cancer is a horrible experience I wouldn't wish upon anyone...
It just seems like breast cancer gets a massive media coverage bias when compared to other cancers which are less 'trendy/fashionable' but just as horrible.
My grandpa died recently of prostate cancer,
but i have yet to know anyone with breast cancer.
So even though I'm a girl,
Prostate Cancer hits closer to home for me than breast cancer does.
His death still hasn't really registered with me.
It still feels like he'll be there, watching a John Wayne movie, if i go to my grandparents' house.
But I know he won't be, because he's currently ashes in a fancy clock on the mantle.
Aaaaa