Pink Ribbons - Breast Cancer

In an effort to bring awareness to breast cancer, pink ribbons are everywhere. College football fields are adorned with them and the players even wear pink socks. This is all well & good, but you don't see anything for testicular cancer awareness do you? Maybe we could have a blue ribbon with 2 balls hanging from it? Or prostate cancer - we could have a brown ribbon?

just sitting here pondering.........

Fuck cancer

But I'm always amazed at the disproportionate attention breast cancer gets.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women. It isn't even close.

Like so many things, it's not just one-or-the-other...

Lance Armstrong headed a major effort to publicize testicular cancer.
But campaigns need to maintain momentum to keep the $ flowing.
Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

Support middle finger cancer sufferers :flipbird:

and we definitely needed scented brown wristbands to show our support for the fight against bowel and colon cancer.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23752

I want to change the ribbon color to purple.

purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying

Driving my kids to swim practice last night, two cars in front of us had pink ribbons with the "hole" in the shape of a cross and the word jesus on them. I should not have said "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!". I just shouldn'ta

Yeah, but it's never stopped you before. :haha:

monster;689300 wrote:

... "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!"...

Doesn't everyone?

monster;689298 wrote:

purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying

The gays get all the good colors...

They need to start looking at ovarian cancer: the least detectable most insidious of them all. One day you just find out you have it, after months of it's sneaking and hiding in your most inner parts, and good luck by then. :(

Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

I find this incredibly ironic. Commercials about men with floppy dicks, taking pills to unflop their floppy dicks...seems to be no shame in that, nor lack of funding to find more and better ways to keep mens dicks from a'floppin'. [/soapbox]

Good post Bruce! :thumb:

xoB, that's quite discouraging... but that was Pauling (d. 1994 ?)

Things have changed a lot since then.
Screening, diagnosis. and treatments for almost all
forms of cancer have actually improved in these past 15-20 years.
And even though I feel that Nixon was politically evil, I do give him credit
for starting the "war on cancer" and the NCI in the early 1970's.
So I am much more optimistic.

It's just that the public wants to believe that "CANCER" is just one thing
and some magic bullet is going to come along and cure it once and forever.
With just a few exceptions, cancer is not an infectious disease that spreads through the population.
It's a highly individual disease that needs a highly personal intervention for prevention, screening, and treatment
and for the affected person who has to go it alone, it is tragic.

According to the big graphic, 1 in 4 people will die from cancer. OK. That's serious. But what are the other 3 out of 4 going to die of? It's a cancer graphic, so they don't tell you, but the answer is heart disease and stroke.

Heart disease and stroke are the things you should be looking for. Keep those arteries clean.

And don't cross the street without looking both ways.

And always wear your seatbelt

And wear your mittens and don't go splashing in puddles and don't throw pencils because you could put someone's eye out and then sorry won't be enough.

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I was driving to the store yesterday and this driver totally sped past me and cut me off, almost caused a wreck. And on the back of that car? Pink ribbon. Well I got them back... that's right, now I'm in FAVOR of breast cancer.

And wear your helmet at all times.

And don't forget to wear a condom when shaking hands in case you touch yourself afterwards.

Prostate Cancer:
All men are at risk for developing prostate cancer. About one man in six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, but only one man in 34 will die of this disease. About 80 percent of men who reach age 80 have prostate cancer.

per webmd.com

glatt;689444 wrote:

According to the big graphic, 1 in 4 people will die from cancer. OK. That's serious. But what are the other 3 out of 4 going to die of? It's a cancer graphic, so they don't tell you, but the answer is heart disease and stroke.

Heart disease and stroke are the things you should be looking for. Keep those arteries clean.

Right, but men care more about our breasts :ggw:than about our hearts. :heartpump

(I don't really mean that, I know how many of you are caring fellas, and want the best of health for your loved ones. I just couldn't resist.) :p:

Yep - boobies are more important than a heart.

It comes to haunt me.......

Hector's hockey team played with their sticks taped pink tonight. They got their first win -a shutout no less. Now Hector's goalie stick is gonna be pink forever AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. I HATE pink.

:lol:

Shawnee123;689459 wrote:

Right, but men care more about our breasts :ggw:than about our hearts. :heartpump

(I don't really mean that, I know how many of you are caring fellas, and want the best of health for your loved ones. I just couldn't resist.) :p:

YOU have hearts?!?!?!?

no way....

Big Sarge;689457 wrote:

Prostate Cancer:
All men are at risk for developing prostate cancer. About one man in six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, but only one man in 34 will die of this disease. About 80 percent of men who reach age 80 have prostate cancer.

per webmd.com

Sarge there are two kinds, one grows fast and comes early. Most men get the other kind, slow grow and other things will kill you before the Prostate Cancer of that kind. My dad had the later and chose no treatment, my brother had the former and chose surgery. Men should at least get a PSA over the age of 50.

Something new, growing and regrowing breasts, using the woman's own "stem-cell-enriched adipose (fat) tissue".

He’s talking excitedly about how these women’s bodies led him and his team of scientists to a discovery in tissue engineering, a process that could well be one of the most momentous medical advances of the 21st century: the use of stem cells—specifically stem-cell-enriched adipose (fat) tissue—to enhance, heal, and rebuild injured or damaged organs.

This technology can be used to repair all sorts of things, but...

It makes sense to apply Cytori’s technology to enhance breasts instead of, say, repair urinary sphincters as a strategic way to move the patented technology out of rats and into people as soon as possible. Hearts, kidneys, and even sphincters have to work in order for us to survive. But we can live just fine without breast tissue, and, outside of feeding offspring, breasts don’t have to do much. The fact is, the scientific and regulatory hurdles to getting Cytori’s cells into clinical use will be easier to clear for breasts than for other tissue: Breasts simply aren’t as necessary as other organs, so the bar for proving to regulators that the technology works will be lower.

link

TheMercenary;689549 wrote:

YOU have hearts?!?!?!?

no way....

Well, just one. That I know of. I only bring it out for special occasions.