Male Breast Cancer

John W. Nick Foundation Inc. was originally established November 9, 1995 to promote awareness of male breast cancer. Since its inception, research has shown that male breast cancer is a bigger problem than previously realized, due in part to the fact that men are misdiagnosed or ashamed to come forward about their disease--as if it's wrong for a man to get it.

In the United States alone:

For every 124 women who contacts breast cancer, at least one man will contract the same disease. That's nearly 1% of breast cancer cases! (And the numbers are higher worldwide.)

For every woman who contracts breast cancer, at least one man will contract prostate cancer and will have an increased risk for breast cancer as well.

The mortality rate is about 42% greater for men with breast cancer than for women, probably because men don't respond quickly to symptoms and they're often misdiagnosed.

Men who never manifest breast cancer can still pass on the gene to their children, creating a greater risk that the girls, in particular, will contract breast cancer. This means that male breast cancer is one of the root causes in the epidemic of female breast cancer!

As a result of all of this and more, tens of thousands of men, women and children are affected by male breast cancer every year.

For more information visit the John W. Nick Foundation.