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These people are clutching at straws!!

Disturbing headline and story, though.
How come that breast cancer is always seen as a woman's illness when some estimates put the number of male sufferers as high as 10%..... and rising? Farming? Car industry? Male dominated industries? I contribute to and wear the ribbon with pride but let's get away from the misconception that breast cancer is a women's illness.
Poor journalism, Scotsman.

Dear Colin

Obviously you are quite right that breast cancer is also a disease which affects men. However, the reason that women's breast cancer has perhaps a higher profile is that the statistic for women suffering from breast cancer once they are over fifty is "1 in 50". Cancer is a dreadful disease whoever is suffering from it and this article is relevant to everyone.

But, women are our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and daughters. Families depend on men yes, but it is the women who give birth and breast feed and then go on to provide additional family support to other members of their families with children. These are roles that are significantly undervalued in our society and not enough people are aware of the shocking fact that one in fifty of our female relatives may be likely to suffer from breast cancer once they are over fifty. Not enough is done to make people aware of this so that sufficient screening can be done.

I do not mean to detract from the support male family members provide but having worked in a school I feel that I can safely say it is women who are still in the majority in providing nurturing in our society.

If these statistics about working conditions are correct then surely we should be asking what is going to be done to improve this by the employers and our government.

For instance, if chlorine is a problem then what about our swimming pools?

Bungle,
I have had a friend (male) who died of breast cancer and it is disingenuous for it to be viewed, generally, as a women's illness. Granted, statistics are that women suffer the vast majority of cases and it is rightly treated seriously by authorities in that light. But you can make statistics show whatever you want - 100% of testicular cancer sufferes are men, and the same of women for cancer of the cervix.
Your second paragraph is, of course, touching and your third rather loses the plot, I'm sorry to say. The fact remains that breast cancer in men is one of the least publicised and discussed areas of health and the public need to be disabused of the general belief that breast cancer is a women's illness. The article, viewed in the light of that, is poorly written.

Electromagnetic fields needs to be taken seriously.

The public, doctors and local authorities need to examine the proliferation of phone masts and heavy use of mobile phones and wireless communication within society today.

Daily Mail report on 30th September 2006 by Fiona MacRae Science Reporter

Lifestyles blamed for 80pc rise in breast cancer rate

Almost 37,000 women in England and Wales were diagnosed with the disease in 2004 – 10 per cent more than in the previous year.

In a recent report on 21/9/2006 the head of cancer registry in Berlin, Roland Stabenow informed the residents of Steinbach-Hallenberg in a recent conference, that there is an increase of 7 fold in breast cancer in their area (an area with cellular antennas). He emphasized that this is not a proof that the increase is linked to the antennas. He also talked about the causes of breast cancer. The attention to the place was drawn after a map was prepared by the residents and the cases are near the antennas.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38 in November 200. I am now almost five years clear of the disease and it has been a long hard battle not only against breast cancer, but also against the insensitive siting of the T-Mobile phone mast which was 100 metres from my home. I now live in a cancer cluster which is one of many we have since discovered around phone masts after long term exposure.

I have continued to campaign 24/7 and am now at the highest level. I am now a member of the EMF Discussion Group which is chaired by Sir William Stewart, Chairman for the Health Protection Agency for the UK.

Our next meeting is on 16th October, 2006 at the Health Protection Agency in London. I have received an invitation to give a presentation to the group on mobile phone masts and health concerns. We are also discussing EMFs and the effects on melatonin and breast cancer. There have been concerns that exposure to electromagnetic fields (

Is it the work environment or is it additional stress or could it be our modern-day diet? My guess is the latter.

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Bien évidemment que les ondes électromagnétiques pulsées de la téléphonie mobile rendent malades et tuent. Il serait temps que tous les pays se mobilisent en même temps, car à rester chacun dans son coin l'INFORMATION n'avance pas au niveau de la population et des politiques.
OED

Comment@8 Robert. Good guess mate

Comment at 8- I wholeheartedly agree, the root of the problem is diet, the body and mind is inclined to get stressed due a lack of stress busting vitamins and minerals in the average modern-day diet.

p.s. Also research soya and the effects of too many oestrogens in the diet!

What about all the exposures from chemicals, pesticides, dieseil exhaust, soot, combustion by products .etc. that firefighters ( female ) are exposed to from there jobs. Women have been in the fire service for well over 20 years now. Women should be covered for breast cancer under the presumptive laws and statutes. Male and female firefighters all have the same hearts,lungs,colons.