Check your chest!

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I signed up for monthly text reminders from Coppafeel. They say they will remind me to check my chest.

I just checked. I’m still breathing, so lungs seem to be working ok. Good to know🙄

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To check for signs of chest cancer, I presume?

How on earth do you check your chest….surely that would require an xray

ridiculous 😳

Yup, ribs all there thanks. Asthma managed.

Breasts now a dirty word is it? Gosh. How odd. Like 'woman'.

My male (born so) friend is having treatment for breast cancer. It's not unusual in men.
So yes, get your male partners to check their chests, too.

Men can check their breasts just like women can check their breasts.

Breast not Chest!!

@saraclara but you’ve just made the exact point that the OP was making!

“My male (born so) friend is having treatment for breast cancer. It's not unusual in men.
So yes, get your male partners to check their chests, too.”

Seems to be a failure of a communications campaign, I think. An absolute failure unless it is checking for chest issues and not breast issues.

Just realising I had never associated my breasts to my chest before. Completely different body parts in my head...
I immediately thought of asthma, hay fever and coughs.

I know breast tissue extends under the armpits. Do we have to redefine chest to include back too just in case of missed checks?

Would a chest issue not be more like breathing problems or heart issues whereas its the actual breast tissue that you need to examine for lumps relating to cancers. They are completely different areas so chest is the wrong word to use.

This only makes sense if you redefine the word "chest" to mean "breast". Which, apart from anything else, would be dangerously misleading.

Men get breast cancer and should check the tissue around their nipples - not their sternum, lungs etc.

I've been trying but my breasts are in the way!

Oh dear, I can't buy a home spirometry test.

Should I be worried?

Great point PatatiPatatras - 'chest' could be misleading as armpits and vicinity aren't really your chest, are they?

Well I've had a cough for a few weeks now that you mention it...

imagine being at medical school and not knowing which bits the lecturer is trying to talk to you about

I have an old linen chest. Should I be checking for woodworm?

Had my chest checked recently due to a persistent cough - chest x-ray and then had an endoscopy.

Sorry about your friend.

Is it a case of men can get breast cancer but women can only get chest cancer?

Per the NHS, breast cancer is rare in men. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/breast-cancer-in-men/

Men should check their breast tissue and nipples.

We will soon be messaging to younger generations who don't know what these organisations really mean.

Check your chest! No helpful guidance!

Related tangent: I've always found the name CoppaFeel really creepy, as if lump checking needs to be done by a dirty old man in a mac. It actively puts me off doing something important for my own health. I assumed it was thought up by a man but I see it was two sisters - feels a bit "girls trying to be one of the lads" try-hard.

I thought coppafeel was used to testicular cancer checks?

If I were you, I’d tell them I can’t check my chest as I don’t have a stethoscope, so can they please send one.