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Research on breast cancer is much better funded than prostate cancer. Might this serves as a hard point, in light of the higher fatality of the latter?
by AwaAwa 3y ago
Research on breast cancer is much better funded than prostate cancer. Might this serves as a hard point, in light of the higher fatality of the latter?
- roenxi 3y agoAnd yet it is very easy to lay hands on a study saying that the overall system is over-funding diseases that affect men [0]. It is not very useful to find one data point arguing either way. Besides, we'd probably expect strictly gendered disease problems to be biased towards spending on women. Men have a prostrate and a penis to keep tabs of, women have an entire reproductive system that looks mighty complex and delicate. Given the amount of money that is hopefully sloshing around to make it safe for women to have kids, maybe some of it spilled over into breast cancer funding. It is a reasonable situation. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232627/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232627/
- AwaAwa 3y agoLooks like the diseases in question there are diseases that are more prevalent amongst men than women. Not diseases that are exclusively for men over women. Perhaps there is a curve where if its a disease that can affect both genders there is a bias for men, and if it is exclusively to a specific gender then women get the benefit.