I was sitting in a work meeting when I folded my arms and noticed a pea-shaped lump just above my right nipple. I left the room in a panic. I must have looked concerned as a colleague asked me what was wrong. I told him: “I have just found a strange lump.”
The last thing on my mind was breast cancer; I’d never heard of a man getting it. I thought I’d pulled a muscle, or something like that. When men see the pink ribbon symbol for breast cancer, it’s easy to switch off. Breast cancer is a gender-biased illness. The message I grew up with was that women should check themselves for breast cancer, not men.
