For many years if you had asked the question “Could a girl get breast cancer before she gets her period? “ you probably would have been laughed at by even a medical professional. Breast cancer is a disease long associated with older women; it is not even recommended that a woman consider having a mammogram [...]

Recently some men have began wondering to themselves why it is that so much attention (and money) is given to breast cancer research while far less attention is paid to one of the biggest cancer threats they face – prostate cancer. The fact is that one sees pink ribbons – the now universal symbol for [...]

Although improved treatment modalities and better early detection techniques have greatly decreased the impact of breast cancer it is still estimated that more than 40,000 women will die as a result of the disease in 2009, and although breast cancer in men is rare there will still be approximately 2,000 male cases of the disease [...]