Males, Too, Are Prone To Breast Cancers

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oi-Staff

By Staff

Friday, August 21, 2009, 16:12

A group that call themselves The Allians for Breast Cancer Awareness in Women & Men has come out with a strange revelation. Something, that, for sure, will make a lot to wonder.

The group wants to educate the public that breast cancer is a disease that crosses gender lines. On this, William J.P. Smith Jr., an adjunct instructor in the College of Communication and Information, who is himself a breast cancer survivor explains: "As low as one percent of those diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the United States are males. This is one of the reasons it's perceived as a 'women's disease."

When asked, on what makes male prone to breast cancer, "The figure," says the man "Could be between 10 and 12 percent if men were regularly checked by their doctors."

Research abroad showed the percentage of breast cancer diagnoses for men at 15 percent in Zambia and 6 percent in Egypt and Tanzania, Smith said.

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