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Originally Posted by looneycat

they have but nobody created a campaign for them that appealed to women as well. no pink ribbons or cute clothes and hats and bags to buy in pink for a disease that almost always kills. to say that men didn't campaign because they were too busy with viagra is just obscene.

Oh, really?

Here's a good example:

Prostate Cancer Therapy Too Good to Be True Explodes Health Costs

“Imagine a prostate cancer therapy that has almost no side effects. Hospitals say it exists and they’re vying to be among the first to offer it.

Too bad the treatment may not work as well as advertised and could boost America’s already spiraling health-care costs.

The technology uses narrowly focused proton beams to deliver precisely targeted blasts of radiation. The particle beams are delivered by 500-ton machines in facilities that cost from $100 million to $200 million, and can require a football-field sized building to house.

A typical treatment costs about $50,000, twice as much as traditional radiation therapy though it is usually covered by Medicare or private insurance......

....The easiest group to market to in the country is a group of men worrying about the functioning of their pen**es,” said Paul Levy, former head of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston....

Prostate Cancer Therapy Too Good to Be True Explodes Health Cost - Bloomberg Business