SANTÉ • HEALTH
Seeing Red
LET’S TALK BELOW THE BELT,
LET’S TALK BLADDER CANCER
W
hen it comes to cancer, Dale
Boidman knows a thing or
two. Not only did she battle breast can-
cer twice, but her husband had to fight
through muscle-invasive bladder can-
cer. Mrs. Boidman says her husband’s
plight perfectly illustrates one of the
many differences between the sexes:
Women are more open when it comes
to health matters. Men? Not so much.
“Men rarely talk about their health,
and they certainly don’t like to talk
about anything below the waist,” says
the former nurse and current director of
the