Rod Ritchie

Being newly diagnosed with advanced breast cancer is a shock no less for men, than it is for women. Fortunately, Gary Wong, an Architect from Milpitas, San Jose region, is...

Long a topic for breast cancer patients on social media, no disease metaphors stir patients as much as being told they are battling the disease. So, on BreastCancer.org recently, a...

The Male Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) recently invited Dr. Mathew Knowles, the academic, speaker, and music industry icon, who was recently diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, to speak to...

Being a patient advocate is satisfying, and advocating for men unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with breast cancer provides a real service for a cohort who often don’t even realize...

Why a man might worry about breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is a fair question. For women, on the other hand, breasts are more often an essential part of their...

After the shock of a diagnosis, and about to begin treatment for breast cancer, I found that most information about the disease was aimed at women. This should have been...

Many who have experienced it, say that the grief felt when we lose a loved one who we’ve lived with, or met many times, is different from that experienced when...

The BRCA genes made world headlines in 2013 when Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer following a BRCA1 gene mutation diagnosis. Ms...

Breast cancer patients live with a “new normal” on a daily basis. Months of treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and, if their cancer metastasizes, further drug regimens, leads us to...

Transgender people, those who assume a gender identity and/or gender expression differs from their sex assigned at birth, typically, but not always, feel that they are men born into a...