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I think both male and female cancer survivors are hailed as heroes not just women with breast cancer so this isn't completely accurate

I think it's more complex than that. Breast cancer is more popular because you get to say "breast". It's sexual, and people like to think about innate womanhood in terms of sexuality. Prostates are sexual, but are often thought of such only within homosexual relationships. As homosexuality is so looked down upon, the prostate is thought of as only gross.

It's definitely worth feminist attention, but isn't a straight-up sexist thing.

Surviving any kind of cancer is heroic, I don't know where this comment came from. Breast cancer gets more media attention for one thing because women have had to fight to get women's health issues recognized and have organized around the issue. But also breast cancer deals with saving something many men see as incredibly valuable in women, "saving the tatas" as one campaign puts it, so it gets attention from men too. I think this combination is the reason breast cancer has a high visibility in the media.

For many, many years studies on all sorts of diseases were done on male subjects only, including heart disease, which led to the mistaken belief that heart disease is a man's issue and something women don't need to worry about as much.

But did you know this: "Heart disease is the leading cause of death of women in the U.S. Almost every minute, a woman in the U.S. dies from heart disease. Nearly five times as many women (200,000) will die from heart attacks alone this year than will die from breast cancer."

Why is there not a bigger campaign for preventing heart disease in women? Why is breast cancer what gets more media attention? Heart disease kills more women than breast cancer, isn't it sexist to focus on something that is seen as the only value women have, our sexuality? The focus with many campaigns is saving the breasts, not as much saving the life of the women they're attached to.

This comment breast cancer vs. prostate cancer sounds like a bunch of MRA bullshit 'reverse sexism' whining to me.

Another fact: "only eight percent of primary care physicians and 17 percent of cardiologists knew that heart disease kills more women than men."

DOCTORS don't know that heart disease kills more women than men...what does that tell you? That's just unreal.

Nothing about cancer is heroic.

Just because you survive breast cancer doesn't make you a hero.
It means you're strong, and you're a survivor, but seriously, you didn't save lives, or stop a war, or do anything remotely heroic, so the whole idea of cancer surviving being heroic is just ridiculous.

Uhhh, excuse me if I'm wrong, but I never thought any type if cancer is more heroic than any other kind. If you ask me, anyone (and I've met people who have survived cancer) and I consider all those people, no matter what kind of cancer they survived, equally brave. I find it ridiculous that anyone would say something like that.

I think it might be a joke, but yes, i can see why people find this annoying.

Once again, it's painting female-kind in a negative light.
As usual.