Male Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment Portrayed on "Nip/Tuck"

Kriss Brock, I hope you're reading this - hopefully this makes you feel a bit better about the difficulties of spreading the word about male breast cancer effectively. Thanks to Sarah and Dr. Knopf and HealthCentral for being proactive here. PJH

I'm glad to see the public finally becoming aware of this disease!  My grandfather died from Male Breast Cancer so it is a subject close to my heart.  My mother started the John W. Nick Foundation in his honor to help educate the public.  For more information on this disease please visit our website www.MaleBreastCancer.org

I'm in Scotloand and the programme screening this episode is on TV here tonight. I too have breast cancer and I'm a man. However, my concern is not that the word is spreading about men and breast cancer but the guse of the gender tag"MALE" attached to it. I'm not aware of any type of breast cancer tumour that men get is any different from those that women get, so the disease is the same and should just be called breast cancer, because both women and men have breasts.

What I'm saying is that breast cancer is not a gender specific disease and if a man is diagnosed with it he should be described as having breast cancer as women are. It's perhaps only to do with words but I'm constantly annoyed by this term, I want it acknowledged that the disease is the same.  My treatment, wondeful on the NHS by the way, was the same as women get.