Safeway's Annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Starting

I am a loyal shopper at Safeway, partly due to the fact that they have an annual fundraiser for prostate cancer. Of course, they also have the politically correct Women's History Month display as well, but at least prostate cancer awareness is a step in the right direction.

I've never seen one here in NYC. It must be a regional corporation.
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"Oh the gal I'm to marry
Is a bow-legged sow
I've been soaking' up drink like a sponge"

[Rolling Stones]

As long as breast cancer research receives much more funding, attention, and awareness than prostate cancer research, the latter is always a step in the right direction. I remember making a few prostate cancer donations myself at Genuardi's in the Philadelphia area last year.

To this day, Genuardi's remains the only local supermarket I know of that has ever solicited for donations for prostate cancer research.

What's more, you can make donations to Safeway via Genuardi's, according to the article. I've a feeling that the former owns the latter.

Vince
http://againstmisandry.blogspot.com

"Stand up for what is right, especially if you stand alone."

Our society has always had very little regard towards male sexuality. Not just cancer, but all aspects of genital integrity [circumcision]. From birth till death the male reproductive system is seen as insignificant.

Most feminists [RIP Dworkin] are intimidated by male sexuality and see the penis as a weapon.

A 'weapon' that happens to create life.

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"Oh the gal I'm to marry
Is a bow-legged sow
I've been soaking' up drink like a sponge"

[Rolling Stones]

Mens health issues always take a backseat to womens health issues.For example federal funding for breast cancer is 3 or 4 times more then it is for prostate cancer.In the media,we always hear about womens cancer, this is especially true with NBC news.The reasons for this is the constant pandering to the political correct,and the never ending pressures by powerful feminist organizations.How did we get to such a point where everything is so biased and one sided,and so damned unfair to men,and will this shit ever end?

While it is good to see more attention and funding for prostate cancer research, it is also important to keep in mind that the medical community is currently churning in a heated debate about the value of early detection and radical treatments. RE:

- There is evidence of significant unnecessary recourse to expensive radical invasive procedures that can actually be worse than living with the cancer.

- Men who undergo expensive, uncomfortable, stressful prostate biopsies (usually triggered by borderline PSA test results) are found to be negative for the cancer 65% - 85% of the time.

- No randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that early detection and aggressive treatments reduce mortality.

- Treatments such as radical prostatectomy, radiation, or castration are associated with severe side effects including impotence and incontinence.

- Men over the age of 70 who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and who elect to decline radical treatments typically die from age-related natural causes and not from the cancer.

Moral of the story - there is much money to be made by scaring men into having early detection tests that are unreliable, but which often allow doctors to reap huge profits from treatments that have not been proved to be beneficial for most men.