Breast Cancer… not for women only

Story Submitted You read that title right. Believe it or not, men do get breast cancer. When we lived in Canada, I found out a friend's brother had died of the disease. At about the same time I learned about my friend's brother, I found out my father was diagnosed with breast cancer. When dad was diagnosed in 2003, approximately 3,000 men that year in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, by 2020, the rates have improved to where about 2,620 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed. Unfortunately, about 520 men in America will die from breast cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in 100 breast