I'm an extremely lucky, not too old (53) git, who maybe can give some reassurance to others.

I have male breast cancer, diagnosed in April, and having a bilateral mastectomy on 17th September. I've been on Tamoxifen to keep the cancer at bay, fingers crossed, no other treatment necessary after surgery, apart from staying on the Tamoxifen for a while.

I say I'm a lucky git, as I had my first Hodgkin's disease when I was 15, back in those days they removed the spleen, whilst in there, poked around the belly area to check, then radiotherapy only. This was after surgery to remove swollen nodes around the collar bone and lumps in my neck that stuck out past the ear. Stage IIB, oh the itching and night sweats!

18 months after the radiotherapy finished my kidneys packed in, six months in a renal unit got them going again, I blew up like a huge ballon and dropped down to 7 stone, couldn't walk up a single step, dad had to carry me upstairs.

Two years later I felt a lump under my left arm, the Hodgkins was back, this time two years of chemo and then radiotherapy. I think that finally got the sucker.

All was fine for a few years and then I had a lump in my thyroid, biopsy showed thyroid cancer, thyroid removed along with parathyroids, still have lots of calcium issues.

When I was approaching 40 I was getting a huge beer belly, that ended up being a 5kg aggressive fibromatosis tumour, colon resection etc. 
 

Last year I had a heart attack, and they found radiation induced heart disease, aortic stenosis, 0.8cm low flow low gradient, we're waiting for it to get a bit worse, because of all the radiotherapy scarring around my heart.

And this year its man boob cancer.

The NHS have been blooming wonderful to keep this lucky, not too old git, plodding along. 
 

If I can be of any help to anyone, please ask.