Where there are cells there’s the potential for cancer.
Make sure you routinely check yourself regardless of your sex for new lumps, bumps and spots.
If you don’t have breasts, you can’t get a breast cancer 🙂
I’ve noticed that in Asda this year, where the Tickled Pink campaign is ongoing currently, they’re specifically saying to check “boobs, pecs, and chest”. Which is a step in the right direction, to put emphasis on the entire chest area instead of just the structure that men don’t think they have.
I’ve not been in the men’s room for a while. Are there equivalents to the stickers put on the mirrors and the posters on the backs of the doors, showing how to check for breast cancer?
However, one can’t help but wonder if the branding around breast cancer is ever so slightly counterproductive in getting men to realise that it’s not a gendered cancer. Everything is pink: pink ribbons, Tickled Pink, Go Pink for Breast Cancer, etc. If you use a colour that is societally gender coded for a cancer, you can’t _entirely_ blame the other gender for basically ignoring the possibility that they can get it. But hey, these campaigns _were_ started when breast cancer was seen primarily as a women’s problem, and by the time male breast cancer started to become a talking point, the colour was set in the public consciousness already.
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Where there are cells there’s the potential for cancer.
Make sure you routinely check yourself regardless of your sex for new lumps, bumps and spots.
If you don’t have breasts, you can’t get a breast cancer 🙂
I’ve noticed that in Asda this year, where the Tickled Pink campaign is ongoing currently, they’re specifically saying to check “boobs, pecs, and chest”. Which is a step in the right direction, to put emphasis on the entire chest area instead of just the structure that men don’t think they have.
I’ve not been in the men’s room for a while. Are there equivalents to the stickers put on the mirrors and the posters on the backs of the doors, showing how to check for breast cancer?
However, one can’t help but wonder if the branding around breast cancer is ever so slightly counterproductive in getting men to realise that it’s not a gendered cancer. Everything is pink: pink ribbons, Tickled Pink, Go Pink for Breast Cancer, etc. If you use a colour that is societally gender coded for a cancer, you can’t _entirely_ blame the other gender for basically ignoring the possibility that they can get it. But hey, these campaigns _were_ started when breast cancer was seen primarily as a women’s problem, and by the time male breast cancer started to become a talking point, the colour was set in the public consciousness already.