National Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Male Breast Cancer

Male Breast Cancer

Male breast cancer, which is rare, is generally overlooked. In 2009 the male breast cancer advocacy groups Out of the Shadow of Pink, A Man's Pink, and the Brandon Greening Foundation for Breast Cancer in Men joined together to globally establish the third week of October as "Male Breast Cancer Awareness Week".

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Famous quotes containing the words male, breast and/or cancer:

    How beastly the bourgeois is
    especially the male of the species—
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
    That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
    The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I’m beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright’s character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.
    Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)