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When Men Are Overlooked: What Jeremy Bailey's Story Teaches Us About Male Breast Cancer Jeremy Bailey was 34 years old, a single father of four in Topeka, Kansas, when he felt a lump on his chest during a shower one February morning in 2019. He had enough medical training from EMT school to trust what it was telling him. The lump was firm, fixed, and completely immovable — nothing like the soft, shifting tissue most people have somewhere on their body. He had been exhausted for weeks. He had...

My Story: Persistence, Endurance and Purpose My story actually begins in the fall of 1998 when my mom was first diagnosed with breast cancer. I’ve had aunts, my dad’s sisters, have it but this was my mom, how could this be? There was no history, as far as we knew of breast cancer on her side of the family, but here we were nonetheless. After discussing what laid in store as far as treatment was concerned, she began to cry. Not for herself, but she was worried that the new baby would meet her...