Why is prostate cancer, along with other men's health issues, ignored?

Okay, I know I sort of asked this question before, but it seems as if prostate cancer awareness flew under the radar last month, as I heard September is prostate cancer awareness month, while breast cancer awareness is getting the full treatment. Nothing against breast cancer awareness, or women's health awareness, but what about men's health getting equal treatment. Do we want men to die?

Why is prostate cancer, along with other men's health issues, ignored?
of course not. Just people don't recognise others' suffering until it affects them directly. Guys also don't want to admit to their physical ailments as much as women do... if they did then men would be rallying for support as much as women do. It's a shyness problem, I guess. Men don't like to appear weak or in need of support.


Of course that's a generalisation, though. There are indeed male activists looking to improve the awareness of men's diseases.
Reply:That's a very good and surprisingly revelant topic.........true there were years that women were by and large ignored by the medical community, but women also have their OWN doctors, Gynecologists.....men get a general practitioner, not one familiar with men's health issues.........hence the rise in prostate and breast (yes, MEN can get breast cancer) cancer......Plus a lot, I mean a LOT of men brush things off and don't go to a doctor, because of macho -isms that we place on men in our society........and men aren't as open about their health as women are........