Mens Breast Cancer

Thank you ladies for your suport. Currently working with SBS INSIGHT to get this as a subject on their programme. Hopefully will get a run. 
Next idea is to talk to the breast care clinic nurses and just leave a flyer for men. They were my first contact after being diagnosed. (within hours)
PeterB

@PeterB @traveltext So great to have you hear! I totally agree there needs to be a MUCH BIGGER Campaign done for Male Breast Cancer and not so geared around Womens Breast Cancer all the time. It doesnt discriminate and it needs to be inclusive. I hope you can talk here, if anything we all go through the same treatments and absolutely support each other. Hugs Melinda xo

Survivor oh that reminds me of the TV show!!

@traveltext, it sounds like you’re doing a lot to challenge those stereotypes and encourage men to check for breast cancer. It could literally save lives. I will look out for the awareness day for male bc which is a great step forward.

I’m still on here so i’m still working at getting back to normal. :) I have  been house hunting this past weekend so things are slowly returning to being almost routine, which is perfect. Sorry about the rant in my last post. 

I’d love BCNA to release some diaries which are fairly neutral on the outside so that they could be used by men or women and also make them smaller so that they can fit in bags easily. There are more ways to be inclusive. You only need a few people to make a men’s group on here. It might attract more men to it. All the best. Keep up the good work. I used to hate the term survivor, but I think that’s what unites us on this forum and ultimately what draws me back. 

LucyE, I'm not here much because there aren't many men posting. There's more activity at breastcancer.org but over the past few years I'm the only guy posting regularly on this large US site with a membership of 132,000. IMO men don't talk publicly about bc because they are emdarrassed to be diagnosed what the pink charities have led us to believe is exclusively a woman's disease.

BCNA is this year promoting a special awareness day for male bc on 20 October. I hope the message gets out there since while awareness levels that women get bc is running at 100%, awareness levels that guys get it is closer to 30% that's a long way behind and it means we're getting diagnosed later. This is too bad and really quite discriminatory. 

Good luck attaining the normalcy you desire. 

Hi @MKitty68, thanks for letting us know about your friend. For the awareness day we'll be posting on our social media and website on the 20th October and it'd be wonderful for your friend to share our posts. If he's interested in getting in touch, I'd be happy for you to pass on my email to him: pmcloughlin@bcna.org.au and we can have a chat. 

I have a friend who had a bc scare about 2 years ago & he promotes men checking themselves as well - being a well known identity in the LGBTIQ community he has a lot of scope to reach a lot of men. 
I was just mentioning the Oct 20th Men's BC awareness Day - he would like to help promote this & has asked me to get a link please. 

Pauline
Sorry, her name is Roje Augustin.

Pauline,
also talking to Rose Augustin from SBS INSIGHT, about getting men’s breast cancer as a subject for their programme.
PeterB