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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / November 2006More $ for breast cancer than prostate cancer
But experts and advocates say that when it comes to government financing for the most common sex-specific reproductive cancers, breast cancer financing exceeds prostate cancer financing by more than 40 percent, with prostate cancer research receiving $394 million in 2005, and breast cancer receiving $710 million. The figures, for financing by the National Cancer Institute and Defense Department, were provided by the not-for-profit Prostate Cancer Foundation. The gender war is a wrong war. Congressional analysts estimate that military and diplomatic costs of the Iraq's war will reach $101.8 billion this fiscal year, up from $87.3 billion in 2005, $77.3 billion in 2004 and $51 billion in 2003. Together, prostate and breast cancer financing is circa 1% of this year's war costs. Ask yourselves what might be accomplished with a tenfold increase in research spending in the reproductive cancer area, let alone one hundredfold. > But experts and advocates say that when it comes to government financing for > the most common sex-specific reproductive cancers, breast cancer financing [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > and Defense Department, were provided by the not-for-profit Prostate Cancer > Foundation. > The gender war is a wrong war. Congressional analysts estimate that > military and diplomatic costs of the Iraq's war will reach $101.8 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > might be accomplished with a tenfold increase in research spending in > the reproductive cancer area, let alone one hundredfold. We always seem to have money for war. But most of the money in the medical/industrial complex goes for treatments, NOT research. Medicine is the only field of business where government is expected to pay for nearly all research. |
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