The reason why breast cancer became a cause celebre is that it really was a taboo disease that couldn't be talked about. Cancer generally, but breast cancer even more. There was a time when "awareness" really was important because people were not aware.
That progress has happened with it doesn't mean much to things like endometriosis, which has a mean time to diagnosis of ~a decade, a point made in TFA. People commonly suffer undiagnosed with it for ten years due to a collective failure. Finding a cure might be very difficult, but fairly rapid diagnosis really shouldn't be, it's not like Alzheimer's.
The numbers presented are stark: "Yet, it stands almost entirely alone in terms of how little funding the condition receives relative to the absolute number of lives it irrevocably alters for the worse: 10% of women (or 190 million) worldwide, with only $29M earmarked for them."
That's really bad. Like, really bad. It's not surprising that women might get very mad about this state of affairs.
That progress has happened with it doesn't mean much to things like endometriosis, which has a mean time to diagnosis of ~a decade, a point made in TFA. People commonly suffer undiagnosed with it for ten years due to a collective failure. Finding a cure might be very difficult, but fairly rapid diagnosis really shouldn't be, it's not like Alzheimer's.
The numbers presented are stark: "Yet, it stands almost entirely alone in terms of how little funding the condition receives relative to the absolute number of lives it irrevocably alters for the worse: 10% of women (or 190 million) worldwide, with only $29M earmarked for them."
That's really bad. Like, really bad. It's not surprising that women might get very mad about this state of affairs.