The phrase "walk" every year. Once again this weekend, no fewer than 10 000 people were pink in the streets of Ottawa to show solidarity with these women - and men - affected by breast cancer.
Rarely achieved by this type of cancer, men still account for 1% of the victims. Like women, men have breast tissue and can develop this cancer.
Men aged 60 and over are most often diagnosed, but a new trend is emerging with the times changing. Transsexuals are also at risk of contracting breast cancer when they receive excessive doses of hormones such as estrogen.
The CIBC Run for the Cure took place under cloudy skies in chilly Saturday morning instead.
Martin Chénier decided to get involved in the cause eight years ago. It is now co-director of the event.
"I did not know anyone affected by breast cancer when I started to get involved in 2000. Then one day, the wife of a friend discovered a lump on one breast. She was diagnosed with cancer at age 29. It's very young. In general, this cancer affects women aged 50 and over, "he says.
According to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, 5300 women and 50 men will die of cancer in 2008.
"The good news is that research, paid partly with our events, now enables us to display the lowest rate of deaths related to cancer for 50 years," says Chenier.
Rarely achieved by this type of cancer, men still account for 1% of the victims. Like women, men have breast tissue and can develop this cancer.
Men aged 60 and over are most often diagnosed, but a new trend is emerging with the times changing. Transsexuals are also at risk of contracting breast cancer when they receive excessive doses of hormones such as estrogen.
The CIBC Run for the Cure took place under cloudy skies in chilly Saturday morning instead.
Martin Chénier decided to get involved in the cause eight years ago. It is now co-director of the event.
"I did not know anyone affected by breast cancer when I started to get involved in 2000. Then one day, the wife of a friend discovered a lump on one breast. She was diagnosed with cancer at age 29. It's very young. In general, this cancer affects women aged 50 and over, "he says.
According to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, 5300 women and 50 men will die of cancer in 2008.
"The good news is that research, paid partly with our events, now enables us to display the lowest rate of deaths related to cancer for 50 years," says Chenier.
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