Attention All Men: Prostate Cancer Vs. Lung Cancer

In past years men battling prostate cancer may have not only been taboo to talk about, but had more related deaths than it has today. Could there be a link between men with prostate cancer and those with lung cancer? One thing is certain, the statistics of the two cancers are alarmingly similar and may show a new hope for lung cancer patients.

Let us simply compare and reflect:

·         As taboo as talking openly about your genitals, lung cancer is heavily stigmatized.

·         As like lung cancer, prostate cancer can be symptomless.

·         A prostate and lung cancer diagnosis can be as physically traumatizing as emotional.

·         Without early detection, both prostate and lung cancer can be fatal.

The main differences between prostate cancer and lung cancer in men are surrounded by its survival rate, and early detection protocol. Prostate cancer has a 5 year survival rate at about 99 percent, mostly in part by the disease’s early detection protocol. However, lung cancer has a survival rate of just about 16% with no early detection protocol. Could we as a society learn something about lung cancer through prostate cancer? Can we break away from lung cancer’s stigma, establish an early detection protocol, and build a successful survival rate as prostate cancer? Continued research funding and comparing notes not only for prostate cancer, but for all cancers that have succeeded in getting into the 90’s range of survival, we may one day find ourselves curing all cancers.

Learn more about prostate cancer at: www.urologyweb.com

Learn more about lung cancer at: www.lungevity.org