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Califchief - 28 Dec 2007 08:00 GMT

Safire wrote:

> Has it occurred to you that for each two men dying of pca, three
> women die of breast cancer per NCI/SEER stats? So even if you
> would be right - and you have not provided any support for your
> statements - would it not be reasonable to spend only a fraction
> for pca of what is spent for breast cancer? Don't you think your
> claim is pathetic?

You didn't look at the overall cancer data. Men have a
greater chance to develop cancer, and a greater chance
to die from cancer.

American Cancer Society - New Cases, by sex, leading sites

...............Women.......................Men
Breast.......192,200........Prostate....198,100
Lung..........78,800........Lung.........90,700
Colorectal....68,100........Colorectal...87,300
Uterus........38,300........Bladder......39,200
Lymphoma......25,100........Lymphoma.....31,100
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ALL SITES....625,000........ALL SITES...643,000

American Cancer Society - Deaths, by sex
...............Women......................Men
.............267,300....................286,100

Cancer Incidence - Top sites
Rate for 100,000 population; average for 8-year period

Prostate..............149.7
Breast (female).......111.2
Lung...................54.4
Colon/Rectum...........43.3
Uterus.................21.2
Urinary/Bladder........16.3
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.15.7
Ovary..................14.5
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safire - 28 Dec 2007 11:24 GMT

> Safire wrote:
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> You didn't look at the overall cancer data.

No I didn't, because this is what Mike wrote: "Pca sufferers get a
fraction of the publicity and sympathy and funding afforded to
breast-cancer suffers - because the latter are predominantly women." He
compared "PCA sufferers" and "breast-cancer suffers". The SEER
statistics show that mortality from breast cancers was 150% of
mortality from PCA.

Men have a

> greater chance to develop cancer, and a greater chance
> to die from cancer.

That may be true, but is not relevant in connection with his claim. Do
you agree with him that publicity, sympathy and funding favor breast
cancer because most breast cancer sufferers are female? Can you explain
why this would be true, even though decision makers are predominantly male?

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