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Breast is beating bowel in the battle of the cancers

06 Apr 06:00am

Filed under: Awareness, Bowel Cancer, Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Fundraising

People are dying because breast cancer awareness has eclipsed the dangers of bowel cancer, and other ‘less sexy’ cancers.

What would be the bowel cancer equivalent? Picture: Dean Martin

If that sounds melodramatic, consider this: A national Cancer Council study released today confirms most people think that breast cancer is Australia’s biggest killer. It also found the awareness of breast cancer screening is double that for bowel cancer, although both yield similarly life-saving results.

They have highlighted bowel cancer’s ‘tragic anonymity’ despite it being more common and more deadly than breast cancer. Compare this then, to the ‘hyper awareness’ around breast cancer.

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Elizabeth says:

12:39pm | 03/06/11

I don’t think cancer screening is a must-have and that coming from a woman is totally unacceptable in most countries. It shouldn’t be… I’ve never understood why our cancer screening is so emotive, dishonest, irrational and political - and loaded with vested interests. Informed consent is a joke in our… Read more »
Eliz52 says:

10:42pm | 09/04/11

Angel, HPV related oral and head cancer occurs more frequently than cervical cancer and gets very little air time. More lives could have been saved focusing on that cancer. Cervical cancer has always been rare and was in decline before screening started and there are no random controlled trials -… Read more »

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