Breast Cancer in men

Robert: The lump didn't go away, but it seemed to get slightly bigger and I became concerned. I thought, well, if I go knock this on the shelves when I’m up a ladder or anything like that what would be the consequences? It certainly didn't register that it would be breast cancer. I was more concerned about if I banged it what would happen then.

David: Then I noticed out of the corner of my eye these people coming in from all directions, you know, until there were about five people stood round me and this. And then she got down she says, ‘yeah, you know, you’ve found this lump. We did an ultrasound, a mammogram, the core biopsy, you know, sad to tell you you've got breast cancer’. I'm just “what, men don’t get -” ‘Oh, yes you do, you know, and you've got it’.

BT: And I went for a biopsy. And that were embarrassing.

Was it?

That were very embarrassing. Well, yeah imagine you’re sat there in your dressing gown in a waiting room full of women and they're all looking at you and thinking what’s he doing here?  [laughs]

Steve: I've got to say the information I had from the hospital was useless.

Yeah.

Useless, because it was all female oriented. Well, I felt sort of second class that they weren't treating me as an equal, you know. But that, that wasn't reflective of what they actually did when I was in hospital. They were superb. I mean, I couldn't fault it.