[Tom]

Its just something I've personally felt for a while. Obviously its a bad disease and I don't wish anyone suffering it any harm but is it 'overexposed'? (I use the term overexposed loosely, its not really what I mean but generally gets the point across)

With such a high survival rate of around 80%, more and more funding is still going into it and there are a lot of campaigns to get women to check themselves etc but is it time to stop and start looking into other types? There are some types of cancer, for example bowel cancer, which has a survival rate of around 50%, and other types which are lower. Breast cancer is the one of the types with the highest survival rates but I feel that whether its TV adverts, programmes, fundraising events etc they all seem to be centered around breast cancer. There doesn't really seem to be so much publicity surrounding any other types, especially "male-only" types which hardly seem to get a look in.

Personally I think research should continue but I also think its time to raise awareness of other types, and I think more funding should go into looking at other types and less going in to researching breast cancer. I think survival rates all round need to rise to a similar level across the board before focusing properly on one particular type that seems to happen.

I know I've gone on a bit and repeated some of my points (blame the tiredness ) but I hope I've got my point across well and it will be interesting to hear other views ...