A few years old...
Among the big cancers, breast cancer receives the most funding per new case, $2,596 — and by far the most money relative to each death, $13,452. Notably, prostate cancer, the most common cancer, receives the least funding per new case at just $1,318. But on a per-death basis it ranks second, with $11,298 in N.C.I. funds.
N.C.I. cancer funding based on 2006 death rates and incidence rates
Cancer (Deaths) N.C.I. Funding per Death
Lung (162,460) $1,630
Colon (55,170) $4,566
Breast (41,430) $13,452
Pancreas (32,300 ) $2,297
Prostate (27,350) $11,298
Cancer (New cases)
N.C.I. Funding per New Case
Prostate (234,460) $1,318
Breast (214,640) $2,596
Lung (174,470) $1,518
Colon (106,680) $2,361
Pancreas (33,730) $2,200
Breast cancer activists are well organized, volunteer to participate in studies and get media and entertainment support. Men's prostate cancer, not so much. Men tend not to be social activists, especially older men.
Don't know if you guys remember Dennis Hopper a few years back. Went from an active healthy 60s guy to a skeleton in a wheelchair before dying. Prostate cancer spreads thru the lymph nodes to the pelvis and usually kills as painful debilitating bone cancer. I have 2 neighbors both going through this spread right now.
