Husband and wife both victims of breast cancer

[Contrary1]

Just a shout out to you menfolk, you need to check your breasts for changes too. The very few male breast cancer victims I have been in contact with have all said the same thing. They thought it was a pulled muscle. Don't mess around if you notice a change.


Michael and Barbara Welsh, ages 62 and 63, use humor to fight the disease

"Through 41 years of marriage, Michael and Barbara Welsh expected to share just about everything, for better or worse. But they never thought one of those things would be breast cancer.

The Ohio couple are a medical curiosity: a husband and wife both diagnosed with a disease far more common in women, but not unknown in men. They are using the publicity generated by their story to spread the word that breast cancer isn’t just a women’s disease.

“I didn’t know that men could get breast cancer,” Michael Welsh told TODAY’s Natalie Morales Friday in New York. “You see all the ads on TV, the women doing the monthly exams. You never see a man doing that. So how are we supposed to know?”

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33447296/ns/today-today_health/

Video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33446927#33446927

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[yellerpup]

2. I would be useful to test their environment and

investigate their eating habits, workplace exposure to radiation, etc., and see if there is a link. That breast cancer is so rare in men is really suspicious.

[SoCalDem]

4. It could have been something they were exposed to years ago

Toxicity has been our companion all through our lives..in what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, what we breathe, what we walk on, what we sleep on.. Identifying that one "trigger" substance that set it in motion, is impossible to pinpoint..

[yellerpup]

6. You're probably right

But, it wouldn't hurt to ask and see if something 'jumps out' as a mutual trigger.

[drm604]

3. K&R

Kicking to help get the message out. It's rare but men can get breast cancer.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Paticulary if you were in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Lejuene up until the mid 80s.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/25/marines.breast.cancer.folo/index.html

"Poisoned patriots? Stricken Marines seek help with illnesses"



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"Kelly is one of 20 retired U.S. Marines or sons of Marines who once lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and who are now suffering from breast cancer, a disease that strikes about one man for every 100 women who get it. Each of the seven men CNN interviewed for this report has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both."

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Thanks for the thread, Contrary1.

[Ocracoker16]

7. Thanks for this link

I hadn't heard about the group of Marines.