Many people with other kinds of cancers may feel like they aren’t represented the way breast cancer awareness is represented. Some men feel that women have an unfair attention to breast cancer awareness, when they don’t feel represented for prostate cancer awareness. Cancer is a horrible, insidious disease, and all forms of cancer should have equal representation. Prostate cancer is represented by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and all cancers are represented by the American Cancer Society.

Breast cancer is the second to lung cancer as the leading cause of death in women. Prostate cancer is second to skin cancer as the leading cause of death in men. Prostate cancer kills approximately 41,000 men each year. Breast cancer kills approximately 41,100 women each year. There’s not too much difference in the mortality rate between the two cancers.

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention because there are a large number of women who are survivors. Women have stepped up and brought their breast health out in the open. News media are showing breast self-exams on television with no censorship. The message is getting out to women all over the United States to educate them on how to examine their breasts. There are programs that fund mobile mammogram vans to go from community to community to offer reduced cost mammograms to women who might not otherwise be able to get one, due to lack of health insurance.

Most communities have free PSA screening for men for prostate health. Some communities have mobile prostate clinics, just like the breast cancer van that goes around. If you are a man and you don’t have health insurance, go to your search engine and type “free prostate screening” in your city or a city near yours, if you live in a small community. Prostate health may not be “in your face” as much as breast health, but that may be partly due to women being more vocal about their breast health. For many years women were not represented. It wasn’t until the 1980s that women’s health issues began to be recognized by the medical community.

Many men are not as public about their prostates as women are about their breasts. Men don’t have a segment on the news showing men how to check their prostates, like women do. Men should be educated on how to check their prostates, because they should do a prostate self-exam six months after having a clinical prostate exam by their doctor. Men can do a self-exam by themselves, or they can have their partner do the exam. Men and their partners should be taught how to be proactive about their breast and prostate health. Men don’t like having this exam done, because it is invasive. The only way to feel the prostate is to go through the rectum. Men should become more willing to check their prostates, or ask for assistance from their partners. If men are squeamish about checking their own prostates, they should ask to have the exam, because some doctors forget to do it as part of a routine exam.

If more men were more open about prostate health, there might be more attention paid to them in the form of fund raisers. You can hardly go a day without seeing or hearing something about breast health, and breast cancer. There does seem to be less attention paid to men’s health and prostate cancer. Most men, if they live long enough, will develop prostate cancer. Most men, by age 80 will have prostate cancer. If men were as vocal about their prostate health as women have become over their breast health, there might be more attention paid to prostate health.

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