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...across history and the island of Manhattan, would seem to endow present-day Harvard students with a legacy to be cherished. They don’t. Despite their diverse accomplishments, our graduates are marred by what they’ve tended to have in common: their complexion. White and male, they’re an embarrassment...
...confusion is understandable. Only a tiny fraction of breast cancers diagnosed - less than 1% - occur in men. And because it happens so infrequently, much is still unknown about male breast cancer. "In women, we have studies based on hundreds of thousands of patients," says Dr. Larissa Korde, staff clinician at the National Cancer Institute's clinical genetics branch. For men, there are simply no studies of that scale. Though much can be extrapolated from research in women, Korde says, often "it's a little bit harder to make recommendations for men based on evidence...
...years after his diagnosis, Place is well. His mastectomy was a success, and he's opted to stop taking hormone treatment, a relief, he says, because he found the side-effects, including hot flashes, unpleasant. Today he tries to answer questions from male breast-cancer patients in online cancer forums, and talks with people who contact him through the U.K. nonprofit Breast Cancer Care. But there's no doubt that even a relatively positive experience with male breast cancer can be isolating - even for women. As Place looked for information in online forums, he found that women were used...
...trying to kill you. 7. Take nine shots when Benicio del Toro’s back turns into a pair of boobs, and his front turns into a minotaur. Then take two more. 8. Take four shots every time Johnny Depp takes off his hat to reveal male pattern baldness. How’s that for ‘fear’? 9. Drink a responsible amount every time your mom-instincts kick in. Anything from thinking, “Use two hands with your revolver, Benicio!” to, “Haven?...
...American male physicians who participated in the study filled out surveys reporting the average number of servings of cold breakfast cereals they had consumed during previous years...