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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / May 2007Research funds for prostate cancer research.
I am about to try and get my friends to sponsor me in the annual Motorcycle Ride for Dad which raises money for prostate cancer research and would like to be able to quote some stats. I haven't been able to find anything recent using Google. Can anyone tell me the amount of $ devoted to prostate vs breast cancer in Canada and in the US? In 1998 it was $170 million vs $433 in the US and in the UK it looks like the funding was 1/10 that of breast cancer even though the incicence and death rates for both are about the same. The detection methods for prostate cancer are pitiful. The PSA is so unreliable Canadian medicare won't even pay for the test and when the PSA goes up, you get a biopsy which takes 10 random samples which often miss the cancer. The reason is because women are much more vocal and I'd like to stir the men up to do the same. Wayne Jones Ottawa,ON > The PSA is so unreliable Canadian medicare won't even >pay for the test... They alway pay for mine. Ed >> The PSA is so unreliable Canadian medicare won't even >>pay for the test... > > They alway pay for mine. > > Ed You must not live in Ontario. They don't pay for it here. I have to claim it on my group medical coverage from work. Wayne >>> The PSA is so unreliable Canadian medicare won't even >>>pay for the test... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >You must not live in Ontario. They don't pay for it here. I have to claim it >on my group medical coverage from work. Yeah, I'm in Alberta. No charge for PSA tests here, but there's no PVP here, whereas you do have PVP in Ontario. Ed > Yeah, I'm in Alberta. No charge for PSA tests here, but there's no PVP > here, whereas you do have PVP in Ontario. > > Ed No pvp in Ottawa, I think 1 doc in Toronto. I went looking for a doc who does PVP in Ottawa and didn't find one. I sure hope they come up with some major advancements before I get prostate cancer or am in desperate need of a PVP or TURP So far I'm just on XTRAL for BPH but I'm getting tired of biopsies. This was my third in about 10 years. My PSA doubled since last year and was at around 7. I really don't expect they will have found anything since they didn't the last 2 times. I find out tomorrow. Wayne |
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