Social Spotlight: Rod Ritchie paper.li/malefitness/1461822… #malebreastcancer

Six weeks ago, my friend sat on our veranda admiring the views of the valley and talking about old times and local politics. Today he died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. No effective treatment was possible. malebc.org/?page_id=1883

“Male breast cancer is still treated largely by analogy to female breast cancer despite growing evidence that the two diseases have distinct molecular features. Here, we discuss a framework on the relationships between age and sex with regard to outcomes.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4198…

Indeed it has and it is a game changer!

“So pink and feminine is the imagery, and so female-centered is the discussion about the disease that men are caught unaware. They are, therefore, blindsided by coming up with a probable diagnosis of a lump behind their nipple.” advancedbreastcancer.net/liv…

“Lived Experience ≠ Lesser Experience Our expertise isn’t theoretical—it’s personal, hard-earned, and often traumatic. We’ve survived what others research.” open.substack.com/pub/christ…

A PLEA TO RAISE THE BAR ON PATIENT COMMUNICATIONS The author describes how healthcare workers failed to understand patient vulnerability and exercise basic human rights during a simple procedure. nohalfmeasures.blog/2025/03/…

My colleague and friend Bob Riter makes no distinction between cancers and ditto between genders when it comes to advocacy. “Having had both breast cancer and prostate cancer, I can’t help but compare the two of them.” #bcsm lbbc.org/blog/making-the-mos…

CLUMSY SUPERBOWL AD The commercial ignored all of these people and could have made it even harder for men to have their concerns addressed -- if people are only focusing on the young, bouncing breasts, it sidelines everyone else, the people who need help. nohalfmeasures.blog/

“Based on data from published studies involving almost 47,000 adults, the findings add to an extensive volume of evidence supporting a favorable effect of muscle strength and fitness on cancer outcomes.” medpagetoday.com/hematologyo…

“The 2019 global statistics indicate that the mortality rate for breast cancer among men was 48.1%, surpassing the rate of 34.8% observed among women.” nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

“The researchers matched 9646 patients with early-stage breast cancer to 9646 patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer and found that patients with advanced cancer were more likely to have cardiovascular disease (odds ratio [OR]…” facebook.com/share/p/1HFd9ZM…

MALE BREAST CANCER POSTERS SABCS 2024 Compiled by Rod Ritchie, President, Board of Directors, Male Breast Cancer Global Alliance, 9 December 2024 malebc.org/wp-content/upload…

Thanks for the support Marie.

Male breast cancer: Overcoming the stigma and learning I wasn’t alone preventcancer.org/article/ma…

Pinktober a flop: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that male breast cancer patients are four times as likely to die than females because men are less likely to seek medical attention upon first noticing a lump in their breast.” westchester.news12.com/male-…

“It’s possible that one out of five patients in America is getting the wrong treatment,” said Dr. Peter WT Pisters, MD Anderson’s president.  ⁦@jrgralow⁩ Cancer Care Is Getting Personal. Local Doctors Can’t Keep Up. wsj.com/health/healthcare/ca…

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