When you think of breast cancer, you automatically think pink. This is the color that was chosen to promote awareness. The question is, awareness to whom? The answer everyone is thinking is woman. It's a reminder to all woman to self check and have yearly mammograms. This is a great way to promote awareness, for WOMAN! The only problem is, we are missing half the disease factor. Breast cancer does not discriminate. Yes, it does not only effect woman. Men get breast cancer to. Studies show that men's survival rates are actually lower than woman when diagnosed. Now the question you have to ask yourself is, how is your father, brother, uncle or son going to know to do a self exam when breast cancer is all about woman. Breast cancer along with any other cancer is a devastating journey. With men it's ten times harder. Can you imagine being in the doctor's office, getting the news you have breast cancer? The normal "cancer" emotions going through you, on top of that you feel embarrassed, ashamed, mortified that you have a "woman's" disease. How is your family suppose to support you with "pink ribbons" and still feel like a man? Things need to change when people hear the words breast cancer. People need to know that it's NOT a woman's disease. All these catchy logos, "Don't Steal 2nd Base", "Save The Tatas"," Fight Like A Girl" need to stop. Logos need to be made same sex because that's what the disease is. I had to watch the strongest man I know go through stage 4 breast cancer because he didn't think men could get the disease. If he would have know, he may have caught it earlier. Because there is no awareness for men, I had to watch my loved one go through chemotherapy, a mastectomy, radiation and now hormone treatment. I'm not mentioning the embarrassment of not telling his family for months, depression and feeling he lost his manhood. We need to change the public's perspective of breast cancer. Let breast cancer be what it is, a disease!
When you think of breast cancer, you automatically think pink. This is the color that was chosen to promote awareness. The question is, awareness to whom? The answer everyone is thinking is woman. It's a reminder to all woman to self check and have yearly mammograms. This is a great way to promote awareness, for WOMAN! The only problem is, we are missing half the disease factor. Breast cancer does not discriminate. Yes, it does not only effect woman. Men get breast cancer to. Studies show that men's survival rates are actually lower than woman when diagnosed. Now the question you have to ask yourself is, how is your father, brother, uncle or son going to know to do a self exam when breast cancer is all about woman. Breast cancer along with any other cancer is a devastating journey. With men it's ten times harder. Can you imagine being in the doctor's office, getting the news you have breast cancer? The normal "cancer" emotions going through you, on top of that you feel embarrassed, ashamed, mortified that you have a "woman's" disease. How is your family suppose to support you with "pink ribbons" and still feel like a man? Things need to change when people hear the words breast cancer. People need to know that it's NOT a woman's disease. All these catchy logos, "Don't Steal 2nd Base", "Save The Tatas"," Fight Like A Girl" need to stop. Logos need to be made same sex because that's what the disease is. I had to watch the strongest man I know go through stage 4 breast cancer because he didn't think men could get the disease. If he would have know, he may have caught it earlier. Because there is no awareness for men, I had to watch my loved one go through chemotherapy, a mastectomy, radiation and now hormone treatment. I'm not mentioning the embarrassment of not telling his family for months, depression and feeling he lost his manhood. We need to change the public's perspective of breast cancer. Let breast cancer be what it is, a disease!
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