The American Cancer Society estimates this year that 2,710 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
Unfortunately, that also means their cancer can be further along.“I was working out in my garage and I was doing bands and all of a sudden, I felt like I had a knot in my chest,” he said.
She said, in men, the disease is mostly progressed by the time they see her since they’re not getting frequent screenings, and it’s almost always in the same spot. Lewis recovered without needing chemotherapy or radiation. However, he said his sister was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time. That prompted him to test for the BRCA gene, which can be an indication someone is at a higher risk for breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.
According to Dr. Dempsey, Lewis and his sister’s cancer was just coincidentally bad luck, not genetic.
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