I think there is alot of confusion around cancer and statistics.
And this is a good example of it.
You see - breast cancer kills more people than pancreatic cancer each year.
In 2011 - in the UK -
breast cancer killed 11,700 women (and a very small number of men).
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-i...#mortality
And in 2011 - in the UK -
pancreatic cancer killed 8,300 people.
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-i...#mortality
So why are the people in the video wishing they had breast cancer instead of pancreatic cancer. Since breast cancer kills more people than pancreatic cancer?
Two words.
False positives.
Alot of people have pancreatic cancer - but never realise it. Since it is so hard to detect. As such - they go through life not realising they have a slow growing tumour in the pancreas. And eventually - they die of something else.
But the people - who are diagnoses with pancreatic cancer. Are the people who have the fast growing tumours. And these are the ones that will kill you.
As such - being told you have pancreatic cancer - means you have the 'worse' kind of cancer.
Whereas with breast cancer. Alot of women are diagnosed with breast cancer - and then successfully 'treated'. When in fact - they had lumps and tumours removed which were either benign or would never have grown fast enough to become deadly.
So - they go through life thinking their life was saved and they survived 'breast cancer'. When in reality there life was no more in danger than alot of people's lives are who are reading this now. Completely unaware they have a harmless tumour growing in their pancreas.
And when you throw all of this together - you get the strange situation that people wish they had a more deadly cancer than one which actually kills fewer people. Since - the pancreatic cancers which never cause any problems and are never found - give the illusion that pancreatic cancer is more deadly than breast cancer. When in fact it is the other way round.
I have written about this before - and the above campaign is a good example of the confusion that can result when people don't think clearly about the statistics and logic surrounding cancer, symptons, diagnoses and number of deaths.
http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-22985-...87052.html
I am not trained in this area. So maybe I have made some glaring errors. But the logic seems pretty sound to me.