Some of you may already know that AnCan is privileged to partner with the Male Breast Cancer Coalition to offer a men’s virtual breast cancer support group. While the incidence is much lower in men, all too often we forget that breast cancer hits men as well as women. If you heard our presentation on immuno-oncology this past week, you would have heard me remind our illustrious presenter that too!
My radar is now tuned to male breast cancer, so it is not too surprising I caught a report on Cancer Network today reporting a study that reveals that when compared to women men have significantly worse overall survival from breast cancer. And this is still true when disease demographics are matched up. Read the Cancer Network report here that links to the original study.
Buried in all of this is what I suspect to be the reason men fare worse than women ….. they are diagnosed later at a more advanced stage. That is through no fault of MBCC who strives to make us all aware of male breast cancer!