Please find below an article published recently in the UK. This is a reminder that breast cancer does not only kill Women!
A national awareness campaign may even be launched in the UK soon.
Men's breast cancer ignorance 'can be fatal'
Polly Curtis Friday February 17, 2006 The Guardian
Men are dying unnecessarily because they do not know to check for signs of breast cancer, a doctor warns today. Around 70 men a year die from breast cancer and 250 are diagnosed.
Men are less likely to seek immediate medical attention when they discover a lump in their breast because they are unaware that the disease can affect them (...)
"Half the men who get breast cancer in the UK are not diagnosed until their cancer is very advanced." (...)
A man has explained how it happened to him (here)
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