Receiving a cancer diagnosis is always upsetting, even if the disease is now more curable than ever. For a 63 year-old male with a cancer traditionally associated with women, the journey is more mysterious.

Susan G. Komen guest blogger Yarazetd Mendoza-Camargo, Community Outreach Coordinator at the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia, discusses her involvement with a new Breast Cancer Education Toolkit for Hispanic/Latino Communities.

Posted by: Ben Lillie

In her TEDWomen talk, Deborah Rhodes, a physician and researcher at the Mayo Clinic, describes a new technique for screening women for breast tumors, and how innovation can proceed by tailoring the test to individual characteristics — in the case of Rhodes’ MBI, based on the tissue density — and also about the politics that gets in the way of making those innovations.

BY ELIZABETH VANMETRE, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Skin cancer is the bane of people who love to be out in the sunshine, and for the last few years an emphasis has been placed on wearing sunscreen and be safe outdoors. Good news is out there, however, for sunbathers, and it comes in the form of an increased breast cancer survival rate thanks to vitamin D.