Newly released figures showing a rise in the number of men with advanced prostatecancer have laid bare long-simmering resentment among patient advocates who feel the nation's leading cancer group has largely ignored their concerns for years.
men in general at age 50 discuss prostate cancer screening with their doctor and that Black men do the same at age 45.
Mitteldorf added that male patients lost key support from ACS when the group dismantled its Man to Man group for prostate cancer patients and its Brother to Brother group for Blacks in particular. He pointed to the group's funding priorities, noting that outlays for prostate cancer have consistently lagged behind those forThe ACS spent $25.3 million on breast cancer research and $6.7 million for prostate cancer in 2018, and in 2023 will designate $126.5 for breast cancer research and $43.9 million for prostate cancer.colorectal cancer"Parity between breast cancer and prostate cancer would be a good start in sizing the IMPACT program," Davis said.
Davis also said the ACS data suggest the growing number of prostate cancer cases is even worse than the group has said. Although the society cites a 3% annual increase in prostate cancer diagnoses from 2014–2019, since 2019 the annual increase is a much more dramatic 16%. Meanwhile, the number of new cases of the disease is projected to rise from 175,000 per year in 2019 to 288,000 this year.
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