Your prostate gland is here

3/6/00

Your prostate gland is here, somewhere.

And below is an extract from an article in The Daily Telegraph.

However, I have enriched this extract in green.

"Like many other men, Doug had known almost nothing about prostate cancer. "It is one of those diseases that men do not talk about. (If this statement doesn't open people's eyes to media bias, and the OVERRIDING feminist agenda, particularly on TV, they must be blind. Breast cancer. Breast cancer. Breast cancer. It's about the only cancer that people have heard about for ten years - even though other cancers kill far more people, including more women! Of course men don't talk about it! Until recently, somewhere over 50% of men had never even heard of it! And it is still the case that people think of the gland as the prostRate gland, which it isn't. In fact, even the highly educated Kirsty Wark on BBC's Newsnight team spoke about the prostRate gland a fortnight ago, so little practice has she had in articulating the thing.)

Yet, once prostate cancer has spread, it is, like breast and cervical cancer, much more difficult to treat successfully."

Women, he says, are much better at getting information about the diseases that might kill them (Can you believe this statement? Goodness me, all they have to do is sit on their butts and watch the TV, or browse through but one of the HUNDREDS of pamphlets exclusively FOR WOMEN in their GP surgeries, watch a soap, or open a newspaper, any newspaper, a comic even, or take in some adverts. But no. According to this article, 'Women are much better at getting information.' Perhaps we should all be praising women, and even paying them, simply for opening their eyes.) and those in the public eye are more likely to speak out. Tonight, for example, television presenter Sally Taylor's decision to have a double mastectomy, her surgery and post-operative recovery, are the subject of a BBC documentary. (Oh, please. Not again. If I'm made to watch yet another documentary on breast cancer I must surely be entitled to a certificate, if not some sort of medical qualification!)

She is even filmed on the operating table. (!)

Men who have battled with prostate cancer include Roger Moore, Julian Critchley, Rabbi Lionel Blue and Major Ronald Ferguson, but they are the exception in going public about their condition. However, most men in public life do not discuss the intimate aspects of a disease that is set to outstrip lung cancer among men, according to the Institute of Cancer Research in London. About 20,000 new cases are diagnosed each year."

The whole article in The Daily Telegraph