{"id":181144,"date":"2023-10-29T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181144"},"modified":"2023-10-29T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T13:13:51","slug":"i-got-disease-i-thought-blokes-couldnt-get-i-had-to-read-about-loose-bras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/i-got-disease-i-thought-blokes-couldnt-get-i-had-to-read-about-loose-bras\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I got disease I thought blokes couldn’t get – I had to read about loose bras’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    James Richards is urging all lads to "check their moobs" for the breast cancer after the 37-year-old Londoner said he "thought nothing" of the lump, but decided to see his GP anyway. After a few tests his world was turned upside down by the news he had stage-three breast cancer.<\/b><\/p>\n

    Here he goes talks about what happened in his own words…<\/b><\/p>\n

    If you ask anyone who has been through cancer, the date they received their diagnosis will forever be imprinted on their brain. <\/p>\n

    Mine was February 23, 2023. it was a Thursday, and it was also the day that I found out that men could get breast cancer. Six weeks previously I had been sat in my office in east London when I first discovered \u2018the lump.'<\/p>\n

    Sitting in a meeting, I folded my arms and discovered a hard pea-like mass just next to my nipple. I would be lying if I said I was concerned, it\u2019s something I didn\u2019t give much thought to.<\/p>\n

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    I was 36, relatively healthy \u2013 and more importantly: a man, however, a chance conversation in the office kitchen got my mind wondering. \u201cIt probably isn\u2019t cancerous, but you should get it checked,\u201d a male colleague had told me – although it was still over four weeks before I booked a GP appointment. <\/p>\n

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    If it wasn\u2019t for these words, I would probably be facing a very different future than I am now. Sitting in the car having received the news that I had stage-three breast cancer, I tried my best to see the funny side in the whole ordeal. <\/p>\n

    Flicking through the literature, I found it particularly amusing that I was advised to \u201cwear a loose-fitting bra.\u201d Sadly, this was an indication of what was to come over the next eight months.<\/p>\n

    Cancer can be isolating enough, but without any tailored support for men suffering with what is perceived as \u2018a female disease\u2019, I soon found myself falling apart mentally. The following weeks facing my own mortality were the darkest. <\/p>\n

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