{"id":20915,"date":"2015-10-01T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/men-get-breast-cancer-too\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:45:32","slug":"men-get-breast-cancer-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/men-get-breast-cancer-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Men get breast cancer, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I read your article, &#8220;Kent firefighters help promote cancer awareness month&#8221;, Sept. 25, Kent Reporter), with great interest. But I don&#8217;t recall seeing any stats on male breast cancer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I was diagnosed with stage 3a breast cancer at age 49 three years ago. I had a mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy and a BRCA genetic testing. That was followed by a mastectomy, six rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, which was followed by 25 daily doses of radiation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>So far, there is no further evidence of disease. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And I take every opportunity to reach out in cases like this to educate and try to get the message out. Men get breast cancer, too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can help now and in the future to help educate men. They need to be doing self-exams and talking to their doctors about their risk factors and family histories.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Doctors aren&#8217;t doing enough in this area. Men need to be proactive about their health, and that includes breast and prostate health.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Bob DeVito<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read your article, &#8220;Kent firefighters help promote cancer awareness month&#8221;, Sept. 25, Kent Reporter), with great interest. But I don&#8217;t recall seeing any stats on male breast cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}