Cancerfonden.

Here is the National Swedish Cancer Foundations (Cancerfonden)rationalization for not having an early diagnostic program for Prostate Cancer;

This information was posted on their official website for all to see;

"Everyone agreed that the early detection of cancer tumors significantly lessens the mortality rate in most groups. However, everyone was in agreement to not implement a general early detection program for symptom free men in the same way that we have mammograms for women, because we have no way of dealing with the upsurge in potential positive diagnoses".

In other words it would be too much trouble and far too costly.

The same report also goes on to brazenly say that about 40 % of all men in Sweden between the ages of 60 and 70 years old are likely to have a small cancerous tumor of the prostate gland despite the fact that they are symptom free (for the time being at least!).

However their rationalization for not implementing an early diagnostic program for men is as follows;

"By testing them we risk making cancer patients out of normal men". This statement was made by Olla Bratt, professor in Urology at Lund University hospital".

However - it could on the other hand very well save these men's lives. Notice her choice of words by the way. She does not say "by testing them early we can discover and treat potentially life threatening prostate tumors in outwardly "healthy" men that might otherwise have been overlooked".

Why is an early diagnostic program for women worth the effort and trouble, by the way, but not for men - when we are said to live in a male dominated society?

Vargen.