In a recent post Dr. Bard, a board certified radiologist and expert in advanced ultrasound technologies, is sharing news of how advanced ultrasound and Doppler imaging are transforming male breast cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment […]
Understanding the biological differences between breast cancer in men and women requires experiments in the laboratory. Although most of what we know about breast cancer comes from studying women, recent analyses of men with the […]
A new systematic review on male breast cancer clearly shows it is biologically different and merits its own study and care approach.
East Enders is a long running soap opera from the BBC, set in the gritty east end of London. It has been running for so long, that I remember watching it when I was a […]
Way back in October 2012, within the first few weeks of my diagnosis, I received taxol as the first phase of my chemotherapy regimen. It likely didn’t do much, at least for the main tumor, […]
Disclosure: I work at the NCI, and the opinions on this blog are my own. My work at the NCI focuses on supporting people in cancer research training and is not related to clinical trials […]
There has been some recent discussion about how to talk about male breast cancer, specifically whether to use the word breast or instead euphemize it with ‘chest’. I wanted to share my opinion, which is […]
Nearly 7 years ago I did an analysis of clinical trials and found that 32% of trials allowed both male and female patients to enroll, as I wrote on this site and in a publication, […]
I was asked recently why male mice are not used for breast cancer work – here is my long answer.
Cancer clinical trials are research studies that involve people, including new interventions like medicines and surgeries. There are thousands of trials available in the US and across the globe. Finding one that might be a […]
Entering a World of Pink 