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Yes, Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too!

Now available on the HIS Breast Cancer Awareness web site our new brochure in PDF format so you can download, print and share.  This brochure is filled with great information to assist with Education and Awareness of Male Breast Cancer.

Even if the percentage of men diagnosed with male breast cancer is small, it is often more fatal for a large percentage of the men diagnosed. Since most men don’t know to look for it, the disease is usually found after it has progress to a more dangerous level.   

Now you too can help spread the awareness by printing the brochure and making available in your work place, local gym, nearby retailer, doctors office, or share with friends and family in your life.  Or if you would like to order brochures from His Breast Cancer Awareness Inc. (on nice glossy paper) for bulk quantity, please email us.  Included inside the brochure is a; How to Perform a Male Self Breast Exam and together we can hopefully save lives with early detection!

HIS Breast Cancer Awareness web site continually adds updates so be sure to visit and share the web site for new information.  So Print, Share & Post and let men (and women) know they can be diagnosed with this disease and there is a place for them to turn for Insight and Education.

Modah Ani- I Am Thankful

Editor; Vicki Singer Wolf Co-founder

DAILY ASPIRIN FOR CANCER PREVENTION?

You could get a headache over all the latest information on the recent studies released regarding Aspirin and its possible benefits against cancers.  Well, it appears a low-dose aspirin just might help you with both of these health issues in addition to heart disease.

University of Oxford’s Peter Rothwell and his colleagues looked at eight studies that included more than 25,000 patients and cut the risk of death from certain cancers by 20%. However, this was not the initial purpose of the studies.  The initial trials compared men (only 1/3 of people were women) who took a daily dose of at least 75 milligrams of aspirin for heart related problems to people who took a placebo or another drug. This study lasted on an average of four years. The reduction in deaths from esophageal, pancreatic, brain and lung cancer showed up within five years of the study and further reductions in colorectal, prostate and stomach cancer showed up later.  Since this study did not include a high number of women, breast cancer and aspirin did not reveal a reduction in breast cancer deaths. 

I wonder what it would be like if they considered breast cancer in men with this study?

There were 20 fewer cancer deaths among the 12,785 study participants who were on low-dose aspirin for almost six years, compared with those not taking aspirin (the remaining placebo group). It’s now speculated the reason the aspirin helps with the prevention is it achieves this by affecting blood platelets to reduce inflammation.  As we have often mentioned with information regarding breast cancer, natural anti-inflammatory products may assist with prevention.

But 100 more serious bleeding incidents occurred in the low-dose aspirin group, compared to those in the placebo group. This means, you should not just begin taking a low-dose aspirin regimen on your own but should discuss this with your doctor first.

There is much more research that needs to take place and this includes an ongoing trial that will evaluate the effectiveness of Aspirin and prevention which is due to be reported sometime next year. However as always, any information is hopeful for the prevention of all cancers.

Modah Ani- I Am Thankful
Editor: Vicki Singer Wolf Co-Founder