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The Male Breast Cancer Blog
by HIS Breast Cancer Awareness


How Has Male Breast Cancer Changed Over the Past 15 years?
Male breast cancer: what’s changed in 15 years and how can you help continue to advance it? Though much of the public’s attention rightly focuses on female breast cancer, male breast cancer (MBC) is real and slowly being recognized more often. In the United States today, roughly 2,700–2,800 men are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer each year; about 500–530 men die from the disease annually. Between 1990 and 2021 breast cancer in men have more than doubled according to a s
HIS Breast Cancer Awareness
Nov 233 min read


Understanding the Genetic Causes of Male Breast Cancer
A misconception about breast cancer is that it only affects women. While this idea is common, it is also incorrect. Breast cancer can and...
By Claire Latendresse,
Jun 72 min read


Knowledge Can Save Lives
Let’s talk BRCA! If the BReast CAncer gene refers to breasts, then why do we include men? Men have breast tissue, men can carry BRCA1 or...
Vicki Singer Wolf, Editor & Co-Founder
Nov 8, 20223 min read


Men and Hereditary Gene Mutations
Can you be a man and have or pass down the BRCA (BReast CAncer) gene mutation? The quick answer is YES! So what does this mean exactly if...
Vicki Singer Wolf, Editor & Co-Founder
Oct 24, 20185 min read
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