Saturday, March 31, 2007

Retired Colonel Has Breast Cancer

Men can get breast cancer, too.

Research shows that 99 percent of the time, women are affected with breast cancer and the remaining 1 percent are men.

“I am one of those in the 1 percent,” said 59-year-old Romeo Licyayo, a retired senior superintendent (colonel in the military) of the Philippine National Police.

Family members were shocked that Licyayo decided to go public. Fellow police officers here could only imagine how he must have suffered, having kept his cancer secret all this time. (The Philippine Daily Inquirer)

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