Men diagnosed with breast cancer

Hello everyone,
BCNA are keen to connect with any men currently members of our online community who have been diagnosed with early or metastatic breast cancer. We would like to hear from you, as we plan to start some discussions regarding the current issues facing men with breast cancer and their families.
If you have some time and are interested in being involved, and connecting with other men who have been diagnosed, please email Anna with your contact details. The meeting will be held at BCNA with the option of attending via zoom.
We look forward to hearing from you. For further information and to reply please email – [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you. For further information and to reply please email – [email protected]
Thanking you
Regards Giovanna
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You might get some more input if you ask Men on the facebook page for BC here is the link https://www.facebook.com/mensbreastcancerforum
always advocating for men and looking after yourself I hope.
It's not all BCNA's fault that men are not posting here, but they could try harder. For instance, they insist on everything being pink. If they just put a bit of blue on their publicity material people would say, what's the blue for? Oh that's for the men!
I'm going to get them to try harder this Pinktober.
The pink may be 'recognisable' but it would not hurt to add a bit of blue ! 😁
I think this has been part of conversations over a few years but to no avail.
BCNA do fantastic work and this is a total non-issue. I suffer from a chronic, incurable disease which is associated with a coloured ribbon: purple. Does that mean I am ...what? Transgender? A grape? A jellyfish? It's just a coloured ribbon. That's it. The purple ribbon is a symbol that's associated with epilepsy.
Pink ribbons are associated with breast cancer. That's it.
"Pink is for girls and blue is for boys," said 1989.
Come to think about it... Pink is not "for girls" and blue is not "for boys". It's not 1989.
Why though? Who decided that?
In the 19th century blue was actually the color that was meant to be for girls, because it was seen as a dainty color, and pink was seen as a stronger color.
My experience has been that there are strong women and strong men, and that colours don't really come into it.
In the 1960’s the women’s liberation movement through out this social norm and threw gendered colors out the window. Ultrasound scans brought them back.