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March 14, 2023

Clinical Trials for BRCA2 Pancreatic and Prostate Cancer and Collaboration between Cancer Centers Saved My Life—Twice!

Posted in: Research , Men With Mutations , Stories
Tags: BRCA2 , Prostate Cancer , Clinical Trials , Pancreatic Cancer , Research

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March 01, 2023

Lynch Syndrome Lurked in My Family’s Genes for Years Before Colon Cancer Took My Son

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Stories , Diversity And Inclusion
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February 11, 2022

BRCA2, Early-Stage Prostate Cancer and a Decision at 54

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Stories
Tags: BRCA , BRCA2 , Prostate Cancer

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November 03, 2021

What does the ‘breast cancer gene’ mean for men? For some, pancreatic and prostate cancer

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Stories
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , BRCA1 , Prostate Cancer , Pancreatic Cancer , Men With Mutations

September 05, 2021

A Different Kind of Trial: A Litigation Attorney's Take on Being in a National Institutes of Health Clinical Trial

Posted in: Research , Men With Mutations
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA2 , Prostate Cancer , Clinical Trials , Volunteer

June 14, 2021

Surviving, and Thriving, as a Dad with a Cancer Gene Mutation

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Stories
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA2 , Men With Mutations

September 03, 2020

Including Men in Breast Cancer Trials (Finally!)

Posted in: Research , Men With Mutations
Tags: Breast Cancer , Clinical Trials , Male Breast Cancer , CHEK2 , Research

September 30, 2019

My Experience As A Male Previvor

Posted in: Men With Mutations
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA2 , Previvor , HBOC , Inherited Cancer , Cancer Screening , Germline Mutations

August 12, 2019

My CDH1 Mutation and Why I Chose Preventive Gastrectomy

Posted in: Risk Management , Men With Mutations , Genetic Testing , Stories
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Testing , Previvor , CDH1

June 27, 2019

Men Can Have Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Breast Reconstruction And Going Flat
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Reconstruction Or Going Flat , Male Breast Cancer , Men With Mutations

November 28, 2018

You Don’t Need a Family History of Cancer to Benefit from Genetic Testing

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Genetic Testing , Guidelines
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Prostate Cancer , Screening And Prevention , Pancreatic Cancer

June 17, 2018

Solving for Y: Reaching Men About Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate And Related Cancers (HBOC)

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Genetic Testing
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , HBOC , Prostate Cancer , USPSTF , Screening And Prevention , PALB2 , PTEN , Pancreatic Cancer , Male Breast Cancer , CHEK2 , ATM

February 07, 2018

Why I Chose Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Cancer Treatment
Tags: BRCA2 , HBOC , Pancreatic Cancer , Cancer Research , Immunotherapy , Immunooncology , Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

June 01, 2012

13 Facts that Men with Hereditary Cancer Risk Should Know

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Men With Mutations
Tags: BRCA , Genetics , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Survivor , Prostate Cancer , USPSTF