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“I tooam the luckyone-out-of2,400expectedcasesannually in theUSofmalebreast cancer. It took me a long time to accept those words. Over a year past diagnosis and six months past treatment, it still sounds a little weird. Well, I’m now preparing to shout from the rooftops that, ‘Breast cancer is an equal opportunity disease!’ I was diagnosed at age 69. Having recently retired, I finally had enough free time to justifymy joining theYMCA.Afterdoingmycustomary laps in thepool, Iwouldusually hang by my arms from a ‘noodle’ in the deep end, to help decompress a severely damaged spine. Forseveral months I’d been noticing a lump inmy right breast where it rubbed against the noodle. Like most males, I assumed it was a fatty deposit and ignored it…until it started to ache. My wife examined it and said it felt unusual to her. OnMay 3rd, 2016, Isawmy family doctor. Hesentme fora mammogram. Ahalf hour following my sonogram , I saw the attending physician who suggested a core biopsy, which he performed an hour later. Another wait, this time for six days, until my GP called with the diagnosis, Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer, Stage 2, Grade 2. This does not happen to MEN. This cannot happen to ME! I toleratedchemotherapyprettywellwith littlenausea, though thedreadedconstipation was very much present. I was initially more affected by the steroids, which disrupted my sleep and energized me to a point of mania. I lived for two weeks in a dizzying slow-motion fog that was worrying enough for my doc to order a brain MRI. Nothing, beyond ending the treatments, worked. Well, I’m now more than a year past diagnosis and for the moment my lab tests and scans are clear!This is when the real healing begins, the return to a “new normal.” I’m on a life-time daily dose Tamoxifen. I’ve intentionally trimmed down from 220 lbs. to 188 lbs. in response to an onset of chemo-induced Type II Diabetes. I’m continuing to reduce the lymphedema — exceedingly slowly — with therapy, and I have returned to Tai-Chi classes. I’ve reduced my A1C from 6.7 to 5.7 and my LDL to 99. But there is always the niggling fear of recurrence or metastasis. All I can do is appreciate and be thankful for all that I have now and let tomorrow fend for itself. Where there is fear, there is no hope. Of the two, I enthusiastically choose the latter.” - Barry J.

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