zxexz 3 days ago

I advise people to at least consider the “years of life lost” approach to thinking about this [0]

Prostate cancer and breast cancer suck. All cancer sucks, it’s a blight on civilization.

Don’t pit diseases against each other like that. They’re not sports teams.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10279998/

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  • mattigames 2 days ago

    The money is not infinite in any sense so it is for many pragmatic purposes a competition, the diseases with more attention get more research, so it's in the reasonable interests of the people to advocate for the diseases that are most likely to affect them personally.

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    • zxexz 2 days ago

      For sure. I would like to point out for readers to think about the fact that if you are, say, a guy in your 30s, the women close to you getting breast cancer will also have a profound impact on your life. Likely a greater one than dying of prostate cancer in your 80s.

      Maybe (hopefully) neither of those happen! Maybe you get prostate cancer in your 30s! I just hope one can realize that getting the disease oneself is not the only way the disease can affect them, far from it.

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  • radu_floricica 2 days ago

    And yet you chose to reply to this comment instead of the parent :)

    CW is a thing, cant's wish it away. Best to work on rules of engagement and being at least slightly productive about it. Small steps like https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/but-vs-yes-but. Seems trivial, but I'd love to see more informal rules like this enforced in practice.

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    • zxexz 2 days ago

      I’m sure I don’t understand what you’re saying! Could you explain? I’m not being facetious, either. I’m not sure how posting this to the parent would have made any sense.

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jrflowers 3 days ago

According to the American Cancer Society, it is estimated that there will be over 62,000 more cases of breast cancer than prostate cancer in the US this year, and will kill over 6000 more people.

>The American Cancer Society’s estimates for prostate cancer in the United States for 2025 are:

>About 313,780 new cases of prostate cancer

>About 35,770 deaths from prostate cancer

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/about/ke...

>The American Cancer Society's estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2025 are:

>About 316,950 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.

>About 59,080 new cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) will be diagnosed.

>About 42,170 women will die from breast cancer.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-...

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  • ArnoVW 2 days ago

    there are more women than men. It's not 50/50 but 50.5 / 49.5, because women live longer.

    that 0.5% over 340M Americans represents 1.7M women, which makes me think that you can't do math like that?

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    • shakna 2 days ago

      So, by your math, there is equal effort for both then? So this entire conversation is pointless?

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    • jrflowers 2 days ago

      I appreciate this creative way of agreeing that prostate cancer does not kill more people than breast cancer

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