Yep that’s right guys.  Not only can you carry genes that are linked to typically “male” diseases and conditions like male pattern baldness that require male hair loss products, but they have now been determined to be potential carriers of the breast cancer gene.  More specifically, it’s two “defective” genes that can carry with them a much statistically higher likelihood of getting the disease for both women and men.

True, breast cancer is predominantly a female disease, but men can also develop breast cancer, and the genes that increase the odds of getting it.  In fact, these genes not only increase the risk of breast cancer, but also prostate cancer (see supplements for prostate health to help ensure proper prostate health), and the more deadly and dreaded pancreatic cancer, which is very hard to treat and often goes undetected until it is too late.

Health care professionals are urging men to get tested if they have these genes if they have a family history, since this may help them determine whether preventive measures should be taken to safeguard against the certain kinds of cancer that are genetically determined, by and large. 

However, they say most patients are not willing to submit to the testing and feel it is unnecessary.  I for one am not sure what they think they can really do as far as preventing the diseases from happening if, in fact, these deadly genes are detected, but if a health care professional is recommending it, there may be something to it.  This goes to show that genetic traits are not simply dominated by one sex or the other, and that we can all get the same diseases no matter what sex we are - unless they are sex organ specific to a male or female sexual systems (reproductively speaking). 

One thing is for sure, we are seeing some exciting advancements in modern medicine and genetic testing, and I believe that within our lifetime these discoveries will lead to things like cures to certain types of cancer, autism, and other unspeakable diseases that previously felt like a death sentence to those diagnosed.  Call it my eternal optimist speaking, but I really think we’re onto something now..