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:

    “Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.”
    —Kate Millet (b. 1934)

    “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.”
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    “We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
    —Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)