{"id":384,"date":"2019-02-22T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.menshealthnetwork.org\/Breastcancer\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:36:44","slug":"breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The model announced in October that she had been diagnosed with stage four metastatic breast cancer.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My inaccurate results meant I had been carrying around a devastatingly unnecessary burden for more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It got me through the most difficult period of my life,” Jeong recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“You get to see me as this model, and I\u2019m also a breast cancer survivor, I\u2019m also black, I\u2019m also queer. I\u2019m not just one identity that you want to pull out, right?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SHE Media’s Reshma Gopaldas on the importance of friends on your breast cancer journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani spoke with SHE Media\u2019s Reshma Gopaldas about living with cancer at age 35 \u2014 with a dash of humor and Chipotle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cGrease” star wants her fans to know that despite her cancer, reports she is dying have been “greatly exaggerated.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How could I feel confident when I was wholeheartedly embarrassed by my jagged pink scars?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reality TV star had received her stage 4 diagnosis just two months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the weeks and months after the best-possible outcome, I felt lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I really want people people to be aware that this is an option,” the tattoo artist and eyebrow expert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For some survivors, this is the only way they can become biological parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serena Williams got out of her \u201ccomfort zone\u201d by singing a rendition of \u201cI Touch Myself\u201d to promote self-examinations and early detections for breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In January, I found out I had the mutated BRCA1 gene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe idea of not being covered when you\u2019re in a crisis … is an unconscionable thing to me,\u201d said the \u201cVeep\u201d star, who was diagnosed with cancer a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “Veep” actress is back to work and baring her soul in a new interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “E! News” host gets real about how she takes care of herself each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man is more likely to accidentally drown than to contract breast cancer, but it still happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was a wave of excitement at Ireland\u2019s Magheramore beach this past weekend \u2015 and that\u2019s the naked truth. That\u2019s because<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Genetic testing and counseling rates among women of color and men in general are still too low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The FDA\u2019s recent OK is a step backward for efforts to increase genetic testing access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My inaccurate results meant I had been carrying around a devastatingly unnecessary burden for more than a decade.”It got me through the most difficult period of my life,” Jeong recalled.”You get to see me as this model, and I\u2019m also a breast cancer survivor, I\u2019m also black, I\u2019m also queer. I\u2019m not just one identity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensbreastcancer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}