ClinicalTrials.gov provides information on getting into clinical trials . The Web site of the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital has an overview of prostate cancer and news about the disease. Screening tests are controversial in both cases because they generate many false positives. Yet in spite of these parallels, prostate cancer gets little attention. In the fight for more funding for breast cancer research, one rallying cry has been that if men got breast cancer, it would be cured by now.
Public concern is lower, too.
One reason may be that more women die, and earlier. In 1999, some 43,300 women died of breast cancer, at an average age of 66. For prostate cancer, the figures were 37,000 men, at an average age of 77. Raising prostate-cancer awareness is slow going. Both diseases have a postage stamp.