Today’s New York Times Science Times section had a very interesting article written by Tara Parker-Poe about Male breast cancer. As her opening line of the article went, “Breast cancer is not always pink.” She wrote about a photography series recently mounted that feature the faces and scars of men with breast cancer. The photos [...]
We are now around half way through the month of October, I am sorry breast cancer awareness month, I keep forgetting! How can I forget with that pink ribbon on everything I buy at the supermarket and after watching the manliest of men, football players, dancing around with pink sneakers. So, why is breast cancer [...]
A study at The Cleveland Clinic has discovered that a gene – known as an androgen receptor (AR) is present in both breast and prostate cancers, but the gene has opposite effects on these diseases. The AR gene promotes prostate cancer when the gene is “turned on,” but in breast cancer the AR gene promotes [...]
It is fairly common practice for those diagnosed with breast cancer to have genetic testing. Genetic testing is almost unheard of when men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Current research shows that genetic testing for men with prostate cancer could provide important information about both potential treatment efficacy and prognosis. A recent look at the [...]
Breast cancer in men is rare, but men do develop it. Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancer cases. Other than the incidence rate, male breast cancer is similar to breast cancer in women. […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is looking into reports that Glaxo Smith Kline’s prostate drug Avodart and Merck & Co’s prostate drug Proscar may be contributing to an increase of male breast cancers. […]
I often walk into the supermarket but I have never seen a blue ribbon on any products on the shelves. In fact, I have never seen a black ribbon (lung cancer), a green ribbon (kidney cancer) or any other colored ribbon on any product; however, the shelves are always overflowing with items embossed with a [...]
If you don't have breast cancer you are being ignored, no actually moderate out of existence by the Hillary for President Campaign. On April 8th, I wrote about Hillary's fantastic plans for funding increases for breast cancer. In my post I pointed out that all other American cancer survivors (there are millions of us) seem [...]
It has been said that there is more research going on today then there was ten years ago, but that does not mean that it is enough. Much of our prostate cancer treatments have actually come out breast cancer research. Funding for prostate cancer is out of whack and so out available treatments remain very [...]
