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Michael Samuelson

Michael Samuelson

September 2015

I look in the mirror and there it is. A diagonal line, about eight inches long. It stretches from my right armpit to my sternum. It’s always there. The scar. It’s always there.

Arnaldo Silva

Arnaldo Silva

August 2015

It has been nearly nine years, but it seems like it was yesterday. I was a 57-year-old healthy and fit father of four working as a Fireman in a New York City public high school.  I remember clearly when the doctor told me “You have breast cancer.”

Sean Comiskey

Sean Comiskey

November 2016

My journey with breast cancer began in August 2000, when I was 19 years old. At the time I was living in Ireland and about to undertake my second year of my college degree. Not surprisingly, it came as a huge shock. I had no idea men could get breast cancer never mind a young, active 19-year-old! I subsequently found out that having breast cancer at that age was a very rare occurrence.

N’Kosi Campbell

N’Kosi Campbell

March 2015

I am a 15 year US Army Ranger and veteran. I have always led a very healthy lifestyle. I never smoked or drank and have always been an active person, so when I noticed a hard lump in my chest I really didn’t pay it any mind.

Peter Botros

Peter Botros

January 2017

I am truly living my dream. I’m at my restaurant seven days a week. My doctors check me every six months. I have never had a doubt I would beat cancer!

Carlton Robinson

Carlton Robinson

August 2015

I never would have thought in a million years that a man could get breast cancer.

Always an avid believer in keeping myself in tip top physical shape, I spent a lot of my free time toning my physique at the gym. All that and my whole world changed in October 2012.

Stephen Sala

Stephen Sala

October 2016

As a 41-year-old dad of three children, I elected to have a bilateral mastectomy even though the genetic tests for BRCA 1/2 mutations were negative.