Cancer

When we think of breast cancer, we think of women, but men get breast cancer too. The fact is about 1 out of every 100 breast cancers diagnosed in the United States are found in men.

It is the same kind of cancer found in women. The problem is that most of the educational information about detecting, treating, and dealing with breast cancer is written for women.

However, a young man named Steve Del Gado changed that when he started Protect the Pecs (www.protectthepecs.org), an organization where men with breast cancer c...

The phone rang at 8 AM. My son, Jay, said, "Hi, mom; I wanted to let you know I will be praying for you and dad today. I'd like to have coffee with you." I said, "Thank you, son. We'll have coffee together soon." He said, "Well if you will open your front door, we can have coffee now."

On the first day of radiation treatment for breast cancer, he decided to surprise me and drove two hours to be at my house in time to have coffee with me.

While we were having coffee, I told him that the morning before he came, I felt anx...

Two days before I had surgery to remove a malignant tumor from my breast, I had a panic attack. I didn’t know whether to have a mastectomy or a lumpectomy.

My doctor wanted to do a lumpectomy, but I have friends who have lived through this awful decision and chose to have a mastectomy.

Research shows that lumpectomy plus radiation to treat women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer offers the same survival rates as a mastectomy. However, a lumpectomy has a slightly higher risk of recurrent cancer.

Still, some w...