Posted 4/30/2020 10:04 AM (GMT -5)
While dozing off in my easy chair at 2AM in front of the TV the other night, there came into my mind a half-dream fantasy-thought, as sometimes happens to me in that situation.
It was a fantasy-thought that won't come true, to be sure, but what if it did?
Namely, what if prostate cancer came to have the attention and action now being given to COVID-19? What if COVID-19 activities, such as the following, were suddenly applied to PCa, just as widely and just as vigorously?
Massive media coverage of it, and very extensive, every day
Virtually universal public awareness of it, and discussions about it everywhere, all the time
Wholesale testing for it on a national scale
A juggernaut of research activity into it firing up everywhere, and with enormous funding behind it
A virtual crusade among researchers to find a vaccine/cure
Massive government involvement in communicating about it, and overseeing dealing with it, on a global scale
Extensive government supplementing of incomes to assist those affected by it
Demand for action among the people that the disease be eliminated as quickly as possible
And the list could go on
No, we wouldn't all be wearing face masks in this fantasy world, but what if blue ribbons attached to shirts and blouses came to be as common as those masks are now in the real world?
Some might argue that among the cancers the breast cancer camp has in the past almost approached to this "COVID level of action," but what an amazing event it would be if this, my fantasy about PCa, became reality!
A fantasy to be sure, but an intriguing picture of an alternative universe where we have PCa on the run, much like we will eventually be doing for COVID-19.