Breast Cancer Overfunding

Anyone else sick of the overhyped and overfunded Breast Cancer Awareness campaign? Yes, we see most of this during October when everything is painted pink and you can't walk outside your door without seeing some sort of fundraiser, donation can, billboard or charity event to raise money for breast cancer, but it's also impacting cancer studies year round.

First, breast cancer is not nearly as deadly as other forms of cancer. Liver cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and others have far worse survival rates but when's the last time you participated in a "Race to end Colorectal Cancer"?

On the national level, the National Cancer Institute spends over $625M on breast cancer research. Yet lung, prostate and colorectal cancer- which kills way more Americans- receives less than half that funding. Breast Cancer Funding

Consider this chart-



The next time someone from the Susan G. Komen "charity" tries shaking you down for money or your office tries forcing you to walk a 5K in a pink shirt, throw a few dollars to defeat leukemia or pancreatic cancer. Sure, the liver or prostate isn't nearly as sexy to talk about but those who suffer need our support, too.