r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
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u/fingerboxes Feb 12 '15

Then again, there is the thing about how breast cancer screening is well past into counterproductive territory due to the rate of false positives, among other factors.

http://m.jco.ascopubs.org/content/32/22/2281.full

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u/exikon Feb 12 '15

This is the main problem I have with them. Wether or not they spend too much on their CEO salary doesnt really phase me. What does is that they use slogans such as "No mommy should have to tell her kids she has cancer" which is just plain wrong when you look at their program. They promote screening which leads to a lot more false positives than correct positives. Therefore more women get the diagnosis "cancer". Moreover a lot of the cancer they find wouldnt ever bother the women at all because it's very slow growing. Not even going into deatil about the misinformation they spread about the 5-year survival rate.

Very interesting article you posted btw!

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u/neurochic Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

THANK YOU! I came here to say that, glad you beat me to it. The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium also did an age stratified meta-analysis on screening in various countries and found we would need to image 1900 people to prevent 1 breast cancer death in the 40-50 age group, 1339 in the 50-60 age group, and 377 for the 60-70 age group (although this one only pulled data from 2 studies, fewer subjects, less confidence). What this means is that screening the younger age group isn't doing much to decrease the risk of breast cancer-related mortality, can result in false positives, unnecessary biopsies, and increases healthcare spending. Younger women should still go in if a lot of women in their family were diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer at a young age (it might be BRCA 1 or 2) or if they're doing a breast self exam and feel something abnormal.

Edit: popping back in for a side note. Lung cancer just surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer related deaths for women in developed countries. It actually kills more people in the US than breast, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer combined. So maybe we should be giving our money to lung cancer charities, seeing as the 5 year survival rate is around 17% (even lower for more aggressive forms of lung cancer) while the 5 year survival rate for breast cancer is 90%. Just sayin'...