Monday, October 8, 2018

A Global View of Breast Cancer

October is a great month to support male breast cancer, too.
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 05, 2018
Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com
After being freshly diagnosed in 2014 with a rare disease known as male breast cancer, my first uncertain thoughts were about my future and my immediate family. “How would this affect them?” I had to ask myself. Today, having shared my story with lots of survivors through writing and speaking about breast cancer in both men and women, I’ve learned that this is a typical reaction to the news that cancer has invaded our lives and our bodies.

Naturally, our attention is focused on devising a plan of action, informing our loved ones of our diagnosis, struggling with insurance and hospital bills and medications and developing strategies for staying alive. And this is true for both women and men.

But sooner or later, we may realize that we’re not alone, and we likely align with a group of people who share our particular form of cancer. And that’s when the breadth of our cancer view begins to broaden, and we move into another level of survival. We become family members with strangers we may never meet, and yet we feel a kinship because we share a specific type of cancer. And we finally have a name for it that doesn’t belong only to us. The isolation we feel has a chance to expand. And for a lot of us, the real healing starts here.



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