Help us promote Australia’s first Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day
This year it is expected
that 144 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer. While this is a small
proportion of the total number of people diagnosed – less than 1 per cent –
it’s a diagnosis that can bring very specific challenges for men.
To raise
awareness that men get breast cancer too, BCNA is launching Australia’s first Male
Breast Cancer Awareness Day on Friday 20 October 2017.
We are calling
on our members to help us raise awareness and reduce community stigma around
male breast cancer – a diagnosis that is often thought of as a “woman’s
disease”.
Helping us is as
easy as:
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sharing
your story about being a man with breast cancer on the online network or social
media
·
following
Breast Cancer Network Australia on Facebook and @BCNAPinkLady on Twitter and
Instagram and sharing our posts about Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
More information about Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day can be found on BCNA's latest news item on Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
If you’re a man
with breast cancer, information to support you can be found on our Breast cancer in men page.
Thank you for getting
involved with Australia’s first Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day and supporting
men diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Breast
Cancer Network Australia
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Congratulations and thanks to BCNA for creating this new day for awareness that men get this disease too.
Because we are diagnosed later, our prognosis is poorer. Here is our manifesto:We ask breast cancer groups to:• Reduce the sexual stereotyping of breast cancer as being exclusively a female disease.
• Include a splash of blue among the pink to raise awareness of male breast cancer.
• Institute a day in October to publicise male breast cancer.
• Advocate for one percent of funds raised on research for male breast cancer.
• Advocate for a screening program for men with an hereditary predisposition to breast cancer.
• Provide inclusive imagery and language across all mediums to acknowledge the disease exists in men.
• Build a sense of importance and belonging within cancer support groups for male breast cancer patients and their carers.
• Provide easy access to relevant up-to-date information for men that is prominently displayed and accessible by all groups.
• Promote breast cancer research and development funding programs that include the male experience.
More here: http://malebc.org/manifesto/15 -
I just wanted to say I think this fantastic! xx1
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Wonderful!! May October 20 be the start of increased awareness and increased support for
our men. Great post @traveltext
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What a great post @traveltext. Any awareness is always a good thing. I’ll make mention of it too at the fundraiser I’m having in a couple weeks. See the post I’ve done this morning.4
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I am very pleased to hear of this move. Throughout my treatment I thought often of the difficulties that must be faced by men in the same situation.2
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Posted and shared to 2 groups I admin and also on my profile so that others can share it added the blurb by bcna and also the website from traveltext....2
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Tomorrow will be a great step forward for Mens Breast Cancer cause. Have started a FaceBook page : The Men’s breast Cancer Forum - men get it too.
Been going about 6 weeks so far. Have done a local newspaper article, had an Awareness morning tea and sofar we have had 4 men contact us. Will be organising a get together with these guys in the next couple of weeks. Also talking to SBS INSIGHT about doing a programme on this subject.
Would love to see posts from more men on our page. Will guarantee that you will get a reply.
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@PeterB
can you put a link to the facebook page please then I can share it on the BC groups I help admin etc. .... and so can others.
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https//www.facebook.com/mensbreastcancerforum/ found it and shared it @PeterB
thanks for putting the name on here... I will put it in our local BC newsletter.0 -
Just want to say that's a great thing you all are doing. Doesn't matter who or what we are we all deserve to have support through this journey I know being online has helped me through this it's great and good on you all. Shazx0
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What a great thing you are doing I am having a bc fundraiser in beachmere qld tues 31october so I was going to mention it there as well and perhaps. BCNA could send me some literature to display on the day. Margie x2
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Hi @onemargie
That's really great to hear you are doing a bc fundraiser for us and looking to help raise more awareness of male breast cancer. We're really grateful for your support. Let us know if you need any helpful tips on fundraising!
I work on the policy team and I've been involved in bringing together men in our membership around this issue. It's really heartening and fantastic to see this day come to fruition. We have resources you might find helpful to display on the day, in particular our downloadable booklet Men Get Breast Cancer Too.
You can find out more about male breast cancer and our resources and project here: https://www.bcna.org.au/understanding-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-in-men/
Best wishes
Pauline McLoughlin
Senior Policy Officer
BCNA
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MaleBC pal Rob Fincher got featured on the front page of the Illawarra Mercury today in a striking half monty pose:3
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@traveltext thank you for sharing this wonderful story. We got word this morning from Rob that it made the front page of the newspaper and it is going to be syndicated more broadly by media outlets today.
Our friend Ron Gordon has also been on ABC Radio in WA this morning; there are interviews with ABC also happening with our head of policy, and there should be a story in tomorrow's Herald Sun newspaper focusing on two friends who were both diagnosed with breast cancer within years of each other. I'll be sure to share these when they're up.1 -
Thanks Pauline. And thanks to you and, of course, BCNA for getting male bc policy instituted throughout the organisation.
I have to post this image to show how dramatic was Rob's presence on the front page.
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