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Breast cancer can also strike men

 
BY HEATHER WARLICK | Published: October 29, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

This year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Oklahoma City raised more than $250,000 for breast cancer research. And the foundation is still raising money with its "2010 Men of Oklahoma” calendar.

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Though not as sexy as the "Save the Ta-Tas” T-shirts, the calendar features prominent Oklahoma men including University of Oklahoma football heroes Josh Heupel, Tinker Owens and Steve Owens and Oklahoma City radio and television icon Danny Williams. All the men featured in the calendar have friends or family members who have had breast cancer.

But breast cancer advocates want men to remember that the disease is not strictly one that their mothers, sisters and wives may get. Men also have breast tissue. Although women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer, according to the Mayo Clinic, men can develop it.

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Related Topics: Health and Fitness, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Men's Health, Male Breast Cancer



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