Man’s encounter with a disease peculiar to woman

PINK October (breast cancer awareness month) this year has a whole new meaning for me, a 70-year-old man who had to undergo a mastectomy to remove a lump in the breast recently.

I discovered the lump about four months ago while I was having a shower. I am fully aware of the various campaigns educating women to go for medical examinations periodically to check for breast cancer. But as far as I know, men are not being advised to look out for lumps in their breasts.