"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
Along with all the questionable ties and golfing underwear, health advocates in recent years have used the annual focus on Dad around Father's Day to raise awareness of the ills of man.
But the results of a new national survey on public awareness of prostate cancer reveal some cross-gender knowledge gaps.
The prostate gland is exclusive to the male reproductive system. Still, the telephone survey of 1,572 adults done for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Gillette Prostate Cancer Challenge found that 36 percent of male respondents and 32 percent of female respondents believed that women were also at risk of developing prostate cancer.