npr: At 46 years old, Oliver Bogler’s reaction to a suspicious...

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At 46 years old, Oliver Bogler’s reaction to a suspicious lump in his chest might seem typical for a man. He ignored it for three to four months, maybe longer. “I couldn’t really imagine I would have this disease,” Bogler says. But when he finally “grew up” and went to the doctor, he was pretty quickly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.

Now what’s interesting here is that Bogler is a cancer biologist who regularly works with cancer cells, as senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of TexasMD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Even so, he figured the lump was a benign swelling of breast tissue.

And he had good reason to think so. Breast cancer is rare among men. Only 1 percent of all breast cancer cases are in men. Still, that means about 2,600 men receive a diagnosis of breast cancer every year.

When Men Get Breast Cancer, They Enter A World Of Pink

Illustration: Maria Fabrizio for NPR

Breast cancer is far more deadly in men than in women. It’s nothing to joke about.

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