Australia: "Gillard Government Funds Fight Against Cancer"

Submitted by Minuteman on Thu, 2013-05-16 01:24

Link here. Excerpt:

'The Budget provides –

* $55.7 million to expand the Breastscreen Australia program to increase participation by women aged 70 to 74 ensuring more women are testing for breast cancer as they get older, because we know that early detection is the key to saving lives.

* $18.5 million for the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centres Program - including funding of $5.5 million to the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre located at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney, and continuing

funding to Centres at the Epworth Hospital, Melbourne ($6.2 million) and the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane ($6.2 million). This will mean improved testing, diagnosis and treatment for people with prostate cancer.

* $19.5 million over the next 4 years for the Breast Care Nurses Initiative to expand the number of Commonwealth funded McGrath Breast Care Nurses from 44 to 57. Since the inception of the Breast Care Nurses initiative, more than 11,073 women diagnosed with breast cancer and their families have been supported by a Commonwealth-funded McGrath breast care nurse.
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* $36.5 million to enable the Victorian Cytology Service to continue its nationally recognised work in cervical cancer screening – including providing cervical screening services to around 300,000 women a year.'

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Prostate cancer deaths: 30.6 deaths/100,000 men
(http://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/cancer-types/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-statistics )
Funding amt: $18.5 million

Breast cancer deaths (women only):
21.6 deaths/100,000 women
(http://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/cancer-types/breast-cancer/breast-cancer-statistics )
Funding amts.:
$111.7 million (incl cervical cancer)
$75.2 million (breast only)

4.065 times more funding going for breast cancer vs. prostate.

1 man = $1.65 million (30.6/$18.5 million)
1 woman = $3.48 million (21.6/$75.2 million)

I'm not even counting the money thrown in for the other female-specific cancer: cervical.

So based on the new research funding, the life of one woman is worth 2.11 men (even excluding the cervical cancer money).

I'm actually amazed the funding disparity's not greater, really. Shows how much it's so status quo that women's lives are valued more than men's. Generally speaking, a lot more.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-05-16 03:38

Saw a breast cancer ad - I live in Aus - in the past couple of days which mentioned numbers of diagnoses and added the number of male diagnoses.

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Submitted by gwallan on Thu, 2013-05-16 07:02