A guy messaged me to tell me I should post in this thread and I came to check it out. A big thank u to Trinket for creating it and I'm so inspired by all the girls and guys who have participated. I hope we can raise enough money to help find a cure.
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Since there are bound to be herds of guys poring over this thread, I am thinking that it should be pointed out that men can and do get diagnosed with BRCA. However, due to various things--men being reluctant to see their physician or other medical practitioner, male BRCA not being on the radar of entirely too many medical professionals--men tend to be correctly diagnosed at much later stages than are women, and are much more likely to succumb either to the cancer itself having metastasized to major organs, or to the aggressive chemotherapy required after a late-stage diagnosis.
Guys, particularly if your mother, any of your mother's sisters, or any of your sisters have been diagnosed with premenopausal BRCA, please don't ignore anything odd that sprouts up in one of your breasts (yup, they're still breasts--albeit vestigial ones). If your provider blows off your concerns, find another provider posthaste. Keep pushing until you have an explanation for whatever bizarreness is going on in your breast. Do not allow your concerns to be dismissed as worry, and if you have to, ask pointed questions, like "Oh, do men not get breast cancer?". Be your own advocate.
Want to spend some time wallowing in a Recommended Read? Pick one! Or two! Or seven!
I DID NOT start this thread for anyone to post disrespectful comments about any of the breasts on it. Please don't or I will shut it down.
it takes a lot of courage for women and some men to show this part of themselves, including me. The least the rest of you can do is RESPECT these people. It's not a joke. Comments like that are not funny.
Just because this thread is full of breasts that you can see, doesn't mean you need to make a Pervy comment on them.
thank you.
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