Men Cancer Fear
Posted on: Friday, 17 February 2006, 06:00 CST
By PATRICK MULCHRONE
MEN are dying of breast cancer because they don't know the symptoms or are too embarrassed, an expert today revealed.
Professor Ian Fentiman of Guy's Hospital, London, called for initiatives to raise awareness that it is not just a female illness.
In a report for medical journal The Lancet, Prof Fentiman said that half of the 250 men diagnosed annually do not find out they have the disease until it is "very advanced", giving them only a 30 per cent chance of recovery.
Common symptoms are a painless lump in the chest or a nipple which has turned inward.
Source: Daily Mirror
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