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Re:Why Is Cancer More Common in Men? by gman83 on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:38PM (#13690224)
Breast cancer was not an order of magnitude more common than prostate cancer:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21332/full#c...

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Re:Why Is Cancer More Common in Men? by thebspatrol on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:16PM (#13690501)
Prostate cancer isn't as big of an issue fatality-wise.

Right now breast cancer has a disproportionate amount of money spent on it, but I don't think comparing it to prostate cancer is fair.

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Re:Why Is Cancer More Common in Men? by daviddavis on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:47PM (#13690753)
Prostate cancer isn't as big of an issue fatality-wise.

Are you sure? It looks like they're both about 21 deaths per 100,000 people:

https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html

https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html

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