A very interesting article has hit my local paper on prostrate cancer. Journalist Nick Claus spoke to an expert visiting from the United States and our National spokesperson Barry Young and wrote a great article to bring about awareness. This had prompted me to call Barry Young and speak to his wife on the subject of what they are doing here in NZ and how they are moving forward and what Barry is up to. At present he is visiting other areas to provide awareness on the issues facing men and the types of cancers they face. He also visits schools to teach young boys of testicle cancer.

NZ has an extremely high rate of prostrate cancer and the National Office of Prostrate Cancer is in my area which has given us the chance to help with the awareness through open meetings which the councils will just love. (I am such a manipulator to gain brownie points)

http://www.prostate.org.nz/

They started off with a small group of people caring for prostrate cancer because they had it or for the wives, their husbands had it. The movement grew and is now opening up offices around the country. Their mission statement is to give men choices much like the women did when they started attacking the rights of women and cancer of the sexual organs.

http://www.womens-health.org.nz/cart...cartwright.htm

This is a very interesting link to see where the women's movement came from for breast cancer. It started by demanding ALL women receive treatment because 20 years ago women with cancer were just an experiment. Some received treatment and other didn't thus many women were not even told they had cancer and that they were going to die.

So back to prostrate cancer.

To add to the fight of prostrate cancer a few (3, I think) young men started a move a couple of years ago in NZ to raise money for the research and treatment of the disease and now in NZ and Australia we have a month of fun with men growing moustaches to raise money and awareness called Movember. To watch these young men on TV one would think they were sitting around sharing a few drinks of beer and challenged themsleves to do something about their own predicament as males. In fact I am pretty sure that is how the story goes. Now they have a movement that has taken off.

I am not going to write the whole article here but want to share with you some of the things that have happened in the USA for those who live there.

But back to USA.

This is quoted.
Awareness in the United States has ballooned with the help of high-profile people who include California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Gilf War's "Stormin Norman" General Norman Schwarzkopf, Senator Bob Dole and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

In the US, the campaign received a huge boost with the injection of US$40 million by a Wall Street trader suffering from Prostrate Cancer. That convinced the Government to put in money, says Dr Soloway, and prompted many politicians to say they'd had the cancer.

NZ is in the process of lobbying big to the NZ Government and Dr. Soloway says all we need is for an All Black to step up and promote it.

Wow, Movember is everywhere. USA, Canada, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

http://www.movember.com

Also sponsored by Playboy and the bunny girls are 'mo sistas.' (Women are also a part of this giving support).

http://www.movember.com/us/news/

So I guess there will be a few stories on moustaches in November online.

From site on herbal remedies.

TIP: Did you know that cranberry juice can prevent urinary tract infection, which have been linked to prostatitis?


Home Remedies for Prostatitis #1: Saw Palmetto it’s a herb widely used in Germany for many years. Is the best long term treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy BPH. It reduces inflammation, pain, nocturnal urination, retention, difficulty starting urination, and dribbling. It’s helpful for impotence, and restores sex drive. It should be used for 6 to 12 months and is effective in 99% of

It is claimed that the swelling of the prostate can be related to cancer.
Keeping that thing from swelling is suppose to prevent cancer.

for more imformation see > Dr Howenstine

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Here is an article about last years Movember written by Kerre Woodham.
Article.
Sadly, she misses the point about mens health and chooses to run men down for the fact that women seem to get most of the health spending pie.
Personally I believe that men should be making a lot more noise about about thier right to better health care, but at the end of the day, whose really listening?.

I think more money needs to be spent on male health education. Its commonly known that women frequent the doctor more than men (probably because many women are hypochrondriacs and are always looking for a new health problem to get sympathy and attention for, lol)

But seriously, education is key. Lance Armstrong did not go to the dr until the pain in his testicles was so extreme that he couldn't walk. And by then the testicular cancer was very far advanced, it had spread to his brain, stomach and lungs. But amazingly he managed to fight it off and be cured! (he had his youth and athletic mental training going for him.)

Annette,
I would venture to say that men have a higher pain threshold than women, now I'm not talking about child-birth here, I'm talking about chronic pain over weeks and months, maybe even years.
Some men will live through this pain and do nothing about it, it's wierd how that works, sort of like a sadistic thing.