Men, Breast Cancer & The Environment; A Photographic Journey
Melissa Ostrow/for Daily News and Wicked Local
David Fox photographs Mike Muller of Phoenix and other Marines who have survived breast cancer at the Liberty Hotel in Boston yesterday. The photos will be used in a calendar to raise money for the Framingham-based Art beCause cancer research fundraising organization.
Marines shoot calendar for male breast cancer research
By Julia Spitz/Daily News staff
Posted Aug 22, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
They are the few. The proud part has been a bit more of a struggle.
"Most guys don't want to reach out, don't want to tell anyone they've got a woman's disease," Pete Devereaux said yesterday as he talked with fellow male Marines who've been diagnosed with breast cancer.
"Some of the stigma of having a woman's disease takes its toll on you," said Jim Fontella, 64, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in 1966-67.
Learning there are others like them has been a revelation.
Male Breast Cancer Cluster Linked To Marine Base
64 Men From Camp Lejeune Have Breast Cancer
POSTED: 11:22 am EDT August 23, 2010
UPDATED: 12:33 pm EDT August 23, 2010
BOSTON -- With less than 2,000 American men diagnosed with breast cancer each year, a cluster of 64 men developing the disease with a link to a small area has captured the attention of doctors.
The men have all been stationed at some point at the Marine Corps Fort Lejeune in North Carolina.
"My thought was how could I possibly have breast cancer? I'm a man," said Teddy Richardson, a former Marine diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.
Camp Lejeune breast cancer survivors try to raise awareness
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, September 7, 2010
These 13 men all have connections to Camp Lejeune, a Marine base. All are breast cancer survivors. And all agreed to pose for a calendar to raise money and awareness.
[Photo by: DAVID FOX | Special to the Times]
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AVID FOX | Special to the Times]
The 13 breast cancer survivors gathered last month at a Boston hotel for a calendar photo shoot that will raise money to research the causes of the disease.
They shared stories of recovery. They talked about surgeries and hospital stays and their hopes for the future. In their camaraderie, some may have momentarily forgotten the improbable and puzzling novelty of their gathering.
A new program highlights a little-known fact: men can get breast cancer.
WBZ’s Diane Stern speaks with Elli Anbinder of the “Art Because” Breast Cancer Foundation about a photoshoot designed to call attention to the disease.
Men with breast cancer speak out
Local Marine Sells Male Breast Cancer Calendar
A Marine from North Andover who survived male breast cancer is now selling a calendar to help raise awareness about the rare disease.
48-year-old Peter Devereaux found a lump on his chest in January 2008. "Naturally I was shocked my head was spinning," said Devereaux. "How could I have breast cancer if you don't have breasts?"
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
The cover of the calendar "Men, Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Photographic Journey."
Peter Devereaux
Calendar spotlights male Marines' breast cancer fight
David Fox, left, shows images to Mike Muller after taking pictures of Muller for the "Men, Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Photographic Journey" calendar.
Photographer captures spirit of men, women breast cancer survivors
David Fox
When photographer David Fox asked cancer survivors to bring something or someone who was important to them, this woman brought her two children.
By Alexander Stevens
Posted Sep 29, 2010 @ 01:49 PM
Last update Sep 29, 2010 @ 01:54 PM
Where do you look first, at their faces or their scars?
Photographer David Fox’s portraits of breast cancer survivors offer a bracing view of battling cancer, but, more importantly, they also put a face on the disease.
Face first or scar first? It doesn’t matter. It’s where the gaze lingers longest that’s significant, and that’s in their eyes and in their smiles. You’re moved by their plight, touched by their defiance, uplifted by their expressions of joy and warmed by the touches of love and support that infuse so many of the frames.
You see it in the loving gaze of a child looking up at her surviving mother –– too young to fully understand the battle she’s waging, but old enough to realize how deeply she loves her mom.
“I wanted to show hope,” says Fox from Brookline, Mass., whose “Illuminating the Survivor Spirit; A Photographic Journey” project continues to expand and evolve. “The beauty of the person, the ugliness of the disease.”
Fox’s photos — more than 70 and counting — support the Art beCAUSE Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2000 by Ellie Anbinder to raise funds for research dedicated to eradicating environmental causes of breast cancer.
By Julia Spitz/Daily News staff
Posted Oct 01, 2010 @ 12:31 AM
David Fox's subjects are different this time, but the subject matter remains the same.
"It's people. It doesn't really matter if it's men or women," said Fox. "The focus is the same, the environmental causes of breast cancer. That hasn't changed and it never will."
Still, the portraits the Brookline photographer shot in Boston this summer are statistically unusual. All 14 are men who have had breast cancer, and all have ties to Camp Lejeune, N.C., either from serving there as Marines or growing up on base.
"The 15th person," a Marine sergeant major, "had lost his little girl to cancer. The calendar is actually dedicated to (her)," Fox said of his portraits featured in the 2011 Art beCAUSE calendar to benefit cancer research.
Links of interest:
Camp Lejeune breast cancer survivors pose to raise awareness
September 13, 2010 11:31 AM
Calendar girls these former Marines are not.
But next month, 13 men with ties to Camp Lejeune will appear in a calendar highlighting their personal struggles with breast cancer and designed to raise awareness about the disease’s environmental causes.
The project, “Men, Breast Cancer, the Environment: A Photographic Journey,” was organized by Ellie Anbinder, head of the Framingham, Mass.-based breast cancer foundation Art beCause. Anbinder collaborated earlier this year with photographer David Fox to release a calendar featuring portraits of breast cancer survivors: 16 women and one man, Peter Devereaux of North Andover, Mass., a former Camp Lejeune Marine.
Photo by David Fox
Former Camp Lejeune residents Mike Partain and Jim Fontella talk to media during a weekend calendar photo shoot with the foundation ArtbeCause.
Marines raise awareness about male breast cancer
(NECN) - When we hear about breast cancer, we usually think about it in association with women. But men can also develop breast cancer, too.
A group of marines is trying to raise awareness and funds to battle the disease through a calendar.
Peter Devereaux, a marine from North Andover, Massachusetts, joined us this morning to talk to us about how he discovered he had breast cancer.
Marines pose for breast cancer awareness calendar
A male Marine breast cancer survivor, from a calendar produced by photographer David Fox and the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation. male Marine breast cancer survivor, from a calendar produced by photographer David Fox and the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation.
Published: Sunday, October 24, 2010
In case you haven't noticed all the pink gear being sported by the National Football League, that is because October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is a terrible disease most often associated with women. But — as we are oft to forget — it can strike men, too.
Fourteen men, each of them a breast cancer survivor who either served or grew up on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., have joined together to create a unique calendar to call attention to this fact.
Marines Pose for Unique Breast Cancer Calendar
Sunday October 10, 2010
Men, Breast Cancer and the Environment Calendar
Photo © David Fox, Art beCAUSE
Many organizations have come up with calendars for breast cancer awareness and fund raising, but never like this one. This calendar features Marines - guys - who have told their stories on this site - Mike Partain, and Peter Devereaux among them. Fourteen men in all, and each of them a male breast cancer survivor. Every man either served or grew up on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. These men have had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and some have had radiation. The statistics are against this unusual brotherhood - men with breast cancer are literally one in every hundred cases of breast cancer.
Video created featuring Dr. David Sherr, a Professor of Environmental health at Boston University School of Health, Boston, MA. who studies the environmental links to Breast Cancer in both women and men. This video was produced by David Fox, Photographer, (www.davidfoxphotographer.com) in partnership with the Art beCause Breast Cancer Foundation (www.artbecause.org).
Valley man finds breast cancer not just women's disease
2 comments by Cathryn Creno - Oct. 21, 2010 01:07 PM
The Arizona Republic
Most physicians won't see a single case of a man with breast cancer in their careers. Dr. Patricia Dietzgen, an Ahwatukee Foothills general-practice physician, has seen two.
Dietzgen's saw her first case when she was a medical student in Iowa about 15 years ago. Her second was in Ahwatukee Foothills in 2008.
Michael Schennum/The Arizona Republic
Former Marine Mike Muller shows his cancer survivor calendar photo at his home in Ahwatukee.
