Men Get Breast Cancer Too

Beyoncé's father, Mathew Knowles, recently revealed he has breast cancer — which is more common in men than you might think.

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00:00You can survive this, but it has to be early detection, and I can't overemphasize the

00:20word early.

00:33The guys in the business of metal are tough boys, they're all tough kids, and I think

00:37they're, not the word ignorant or the word, they just don't get it maybe, or they're not

00:46probably even will listen to this and go, Peter Chris is crazy, this just ain't gonna

00:51happen to me man, not me dude, you know, I'm a tough dude.

00:54Well yeah, it can happen to you, and when it does, if you don't do it right away, with

00:59your dude and your metal and your tattoos, you'll go in a box and we'll see ya.

01:12When I approached the doctor, he said, well you don't have breast cancer, men don't get

01:15breast cancer.

01:16I said, well, I want to have some tests run.

01:20And they kept coming back, inconclusive, inconclusive, inconclusive, and finally then, after an open

01:28biopsy, it was determined that, yes, you do have breast cancer.

01:42I felt a tiny bit of tenderness in my chest area, but not anything I would consider cancer.

01:49If anything, it felt like a bite, a bruise, something of that nature.

01:53I had felt the pain for probably about five or six months before the blood manifested

01:58itself in my chest area.

02:13This is just something that I'd like to ensure that the males out there know that it can

02:18happen to men as well.