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Re: Male Breast cancer

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Posted by Shelly Blechman on 2/4/2003 from 216.117.218.7:

In reply to: Male Breast cancer posted by Mrs J Cook on 2/3/2003 from 67.250.142.79:

Dear Mrs. Cook.

I have no words to express my heartfelt sympathy for you and your husband and all that you are going through. While male breast cancer accounts for only 1-2 % of the breast cancers that occur, we do remind people, whenever we are presenting at health fairs, conferences and other community events, that men can and do get breast cancer. We know that male breast cancer also tends to be diagnosed at a later stage as it is not as widespread as in females, so it may go undetected by both providers and individuals who are not anticipating this rare occurrence.

When we train survivors to be Breast Buddy peer mentors, we also discuss this verbally and it is written in our training curriculum. In 1998, KTLA (a local Los Angeles news station) aired a four-part series on WIN Against Breast Cancer. We choose to highlight one of our male Breast Buddy volunteers and the patient he supported, to bring more public awareness about male breast cancer. One of the issues we struggle with on a daily basis is the ever-growing need to do more and our efforts to meet those needs.

In our newsletter, Spring 2002 edition, we highlighted one of our male breast cancer patients/volunteers (please see this link:
http://www.winabc.org/newweb/newsletters/Index.htm
that will take you to our web site page where you may view all our past and current newsletters).

You will also find a link in our Resource section on our web site, and in our WIN ABC Resource Guide that we mail out free of charge to every newly diagnosed patient that contacts our organization, that offers a link concerning male breast cancer.

As web site links change constantly, we are in the processing of revising our on line as well as written resources.

We appreciate your positive feedback about the WIN ABC web site and we want to let you know that we are working to get a special page on our web site concerning the issue of male breast cancer

Please know that WIN ABC is here as a resource for you and your husband. If there is anyway that we can help, please contact our office toll free at (866) 2 WIN ABC (294-6222).

Shelly Blechman
Program Director

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