Most men don't realise we can get breast cancer too. Here's what I want them to know
James Richards, 37, lives in London. After a career as a musician in his twenties, he made the switch to PR, becoming an account director. Then his world was turned upside down earlier this year when he received a breast cancer diagnosis. Finding little support tailored to men, he has now set up moobs: the UK’s first male breast cancer organisation. Here, James shares his story., just next to my nipple, I also firmly believed it wouldn’t be anything sinister.
Things got a lot worse before they got better. After my diagnosis, I was immediately booked for a whole range of tests: blood tests, CT scans, genetic tests, heart tests. I was just beginning to accept my position as a– and beginning to feel positive about fighting the bastard – when after a day out, I saw I had three missed calls from the hospital.
The day before I was due to get the results, I went for a long walk by the River Thames, preparing for the worst. The sun was setting and I decided to have a pint. Then my phone rang. It was the consultant. She had the results and wanted to tell me to stop worrying: it was positive – the cancer hadn’t spread, the lumps in my lung and liver were not cancerous and the lymph nodes in my neck were caused by an undiagnosed tooth infection.
Expect, of course, the other men going through exactly the same thing. In a weird twist of fate, one of the friends I told about my diagnosis had another male friend going through it as well. We were put in touch and he talked of how he was hiding his diagnosis from everyone, apart from two or three people, simply because he found it so emasculating., which is the UK’s first male breast cancer organisation. I don’t want to be doing this; this isn’t a comfortable situation for me.
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