Male BC associated with BRCA2 gene

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathighris

kofsecondtumor

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Anne,

this link would not come up for me. I even tried copying and pasting.

I am curious about male BC. I know Montel had it and also some

football player. I wouldn't mind reading more on it, just to compare.

Can you re-post the link??

Thanks......kimmy

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Kimmy,

It looks like the line wrapped around. Copy what's in blue to your

URL bar, then copy the rest 'kofsecondtumor' after it. I think that

should work.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathig

hriskofsecondtumor>

By the way, I just got my genetics test results. I was betting on

BRCA2 because of my father, but it turns out to be BRCA1. My surgeon

was right.

Ann

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HI Kimmy,

I tried posting earlier but my later post has shown up, and the

earlier not at all.

Did you paste the second part as well?

Try this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathig

hriskofsecondtumor>

I'll play around with things, as well.

Ann

> Anne,

> this link would not come up for me. I even tried copying and

pasting.

> I am curious about male BC. I know Montel had it and also

some

> football player. I wouldn't mind reading more on it, just to

compare.

> Can you re-post the link??

> Thanks......kimmy

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathigh

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Hi Ann,

Try this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathighriskofsecon\

dtumor

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annk_71679 wrote on 1/26/2007, 8:05 PM:

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> HI Kimmy,

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> I tried posting earlier but my later post has shown up, and the

> earlier not at all.

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> Did you paste the second part as well?

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> Try this:

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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathig

> hriskofsecondtumor>

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> I'll play around with things, as well.

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> Ann

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> > Anne,

> > this link would not come up for me. I even tried copying and

> pasting.

> > I am curious about male BC. I know Montel had it and also

> some

> > football player. I wouldn't mind reading more on it, just to

> compare.

> > Can you re-post the link??

> > Thanks......kimmy

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[Guest guest]

Thank you, . I thought there was some special character that

you use to bracket the link.

Ann

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> Hi Ann,

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> Try this link:

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathigh

riskofsecondtumor

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> annk_71679 wrote on 1/26/2007, 8:05 PM:

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> > HI Kimmy,

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> > I tried posting earlier but my later post has shown up, and the

> > earlier not at all.

> >

> > Did you paste the second part as well?

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> > Try this:

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathig

> > hriskofsecondtumor>

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> > I'll play around with things, as well.

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> > Ann

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> > > Anne,

> > > this link would not come up for me. I even tried copying and

> > pasting.

> > > I am curious about male BC. I know Montel had it and

also

> > some

> > > football player. I wouldn't mind reading more on it, just to

> > compare.

> > > Can you re-post the link??

> > > Thanks......kimmy

> > >

> > >

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[Guest guest]

Among the several efforts by some of you to post a working link here, I

never found one that would work right. This was a widely publicized

research report, and I have read it in six different sources. The best

I saw is:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070125/hl_hsn/menwithbreastcancerathighris

kofsecondtumor&printer=1.

The essence of this report is that men who have had breast cancer have

a heightened risk of getting a second primary cancer (not metastasis),

most commonly in the other breast, colorectal, bladder and stomach

cancers and melanoma. There is little proven relationship between male

breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Perhaps the most important feature of this report is that it covered a

very large number of cases, relatively speaking. It covers 1926 men

with BC in California over 15 years. Male BC is so rare (only 1 out of

every 145 breast cancers is in a man) that we have very little clinical

research specifically on men.

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> Among the several efforts by some of you to post a working link

here, I

> never found one that would work right. This was a widely publicized

> research report, and I have read it in six different sources.

I'd figured I would be BRCA 2 on the basis of that report, but it

turns out I am BRCA 1. The brochure giving stats interpreting what

it meant for me to be BRCA1 stated there was a 6% absolute risk of BC

in men who are BRCA1+, as opposed to .05% absolute risk of BC in men

who are not BRCA1+. Trying to give a feeling for what this means: out

of every 10,000 men *without* BRCA1 mutation, 5 are expected to get

BC; as opposed to out of every 10,000 *with* BRCA1 mutation, 600 are

expected to get BC. So men with BRCA1 are over *120 times* more

likely to get BC then men without mutations on BRCA1. [For women: out

of 10,000 *with* BRCA1 mutation, between about 5600 and 8700 are

expected to get BC by age 70, as opposed to about 700 women *without*

the mutation. So having the BRCA1 mutation gives men with that

mutation similar risk of BC as women in the general population.]

Speaking as a statistician: those numbers scare the s*%t out of me,

so I'm going to be having all the prophylactic surgery as well as the

mastectomy for the breast with cancer. I'm figuring I'll be in

surgery before the end of the week.

Ann