When Marc Futterweit’s doctor told him he should get a mammogram … Marc’s response was to consult a different doctor. The hard truth is that a lot of men simply don’t think they can get breast cancer. It’s a lot less common than breast cancer in women, but it does happen. And it needs to be addressed when it does. “The problem with men is that they wait, they think things are going to go away and then there’s a real problem,” Marc says. “When I was first diagnosed, I didn’t tell my wife. I thought I was holding it together.”
Marc actually didn’t tell his family for a while after he was diagnosed. He didn’t know how they would react. When they did find out, they rallied around him … and he realized that being a male with breast cancer is nothing to be ashamed of. “Men are basically standing in the shadows, they’re ashamed or embarrassed,” Marc says. “Just remember, it’s nothing that you have done to cause you to get breast cancer. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. It’s not a woman’s disease.”
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