It killed my father and uncle
GILES Cooper, 56, was diagnosed with male breast cancer a decade after his father and uncle had died of the same rare disease within two years of each other.
Despite his family history, the chartered surveyor initially ignored the lump on his right breast until his wife, a nurse, encouraged him to check it out in 2014. After the ‘bombshell’ diagnosis, he underwent a double mastectomy.
Mr Cooper, a father of two from Conderton in Gloucestershire, said: ‘What I’ve discovered is if you’re with a group of men in a pub and it comes up that you’ve got breast cancer, they don’t know what to say.
‘There’s this complete lack of awareness. Men need someone to talk to.’