Husband And Wife Both With Breast Cancer Show It Isn't Just A Woman's Disease

An inspirational couple has turned a shared illness into a shared vision for the future of public health.  Meg and Gerard Campion have both been diagnosed with breast cancer over the past decade, and today are relentlessly raising awareness for the disease, particularly among men, ABC News reported. Breast cancer first affected the Connecticut couple when Gerard was diagnosed with the disease in 2006, after noticing a bump on his chest. “It was obviously shocking,” Meg told the news outlet. “I think my first thought was, 'He’s not supposed to have this, I am.'” Just three years later, after Gerard had successfully undergone chemotherapy and surgical treatments, Meg found out she had ductal carcinoma in situ -- a pre-cancer that she was able to successfully treat with radiation and surgery, according to the American Cancer Society. But then in 2011, when the couple thought they were finally rid of the disease, Gerard’s cancer returned, and had spread to his bones -- incurably, ABC News reported. Rather than let the disease take them over, Meg and Gerard have only become stronger, and are working to educate others about how the disease can affect both women and men. Though, according to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than among women, about 2,350 new male cases are predicted for 2015. Of those, about 440 men diagnosed with invasive breast cancer will die. Gerard, however, is ...
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